Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] swiotlb: add swiotlb_set_default_size()

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 06:09:09 EST


On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:58:41 +0100
Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:12:40 +0100
> > Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> The current SWIOTLB code uses a default of 64MB for the IO TLB area.
> >> This size can be influenced using a kernel command line parameter "swiotlb".
> >> Unfortunately, the parsing of the kernel command line is done _after_ the
> >> swiotlb is initialized on some architectures.
> >>
> >> This patch adds a new function swiotlb_set_default_size() which can be used
> >> before swiotlb_init() to indicate the desired IO TLB area size in bytes.
> >>
> >> This will be used later to implement a smaller IO TLB on the Nintendo Wii
> >> video game console which just comes with 24MB + 64MB of RAM.
> >>
> >> CC: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> CC: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> CC: linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@xxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> include/linux/swiotlb.h | 2 ++
> >> lib/swiotlb.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > Please fix the powerpc swiotlb initialization instead.
> >
> > Calling swiotlb_init() before parsing kernel parameters sounds
> > wrong. Any reasons why you can't fix it?
> >
>
> I think that this would be better asked by a PowerPC maintainer. Ben?
>
> If this is really a problem the swiotlb late init may be a solution too in this particular case.

Hmm, why swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size()?

Why can't you initialize swiotlb in mem_init() like this (only compile
tested)? Any time before freeing bootmem works for swiotlb.


diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
index b152de3..8f58986 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
#include <asm/serial.h>
#include <asm/udbg.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
-#include <asm/swiotlb.h>

#include "setup.h"

@@ -343,11 +342,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
ppc_md.setup_arch();
if ( ppc_md.progress ) ppc_md.progress("arch: exit", 0x3eab);

-#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
- if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
- swiotlb_init(1);
-#endif
-
paging_init();

/* Initialize the MMU context management stuff */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 6354739..9143891 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
#include <asm/xmon.h>
#include <asm/udbg.h>
#include <asm/kexec.h>
-#include <asm/swiotlb.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>

#include "setup.h"
@@ -541,11 +540,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
if (ppc_md.setup_arch)
ppc_md.setup_arch();

-#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
- if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
- swiotlb_init(1);
-#endif
-
paging_init();

/* Initialize the MMU context management stuff */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 311224c..448f972 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
#include <asm/sparsemem.h>
#include <asm/vdso.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
+#include <asm/swiotlb.h>

#include "mmu_decl.h"

@@ -320,6 +321,11 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
struct page *page;
unsigned long reservedpages = 0, codesize, initsize, datasize, bsssize;

+#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
+ if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
+ swiotlb_init(1);
+#endif
+
num_physpages = lmb.memory.size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);

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