Re: [RFC PATCH] drm: disable WC optimization for cache coherent devices on non-x86

From: Koenig, Christian
Date: Mon Jan 21 2019 - 05:11:11 EST


Am 21.01.19 um 11:06 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> Currently, the DRM code assumes that PCI devices are always cache
> coherent for DMA, and that this can be selectively overridden for
> some buffers using non-cached mappings on the CPU side and PCIe
> NoSnoop transactions on the bus side.
>
> Whether the NoSnoop part is implemented correctly is highly platform
> specific. Whether it /matters/ if NoSnoop is implemented correctly or
> not is architecture specific: on x86, such transactions are coherent
> with the CPU whether the NoSnoop attribute is honored or not. On other
> architectures, it depends on whether such transactions may allocate in
> caches that are non-coherent with the CPU's uncached mappings.
>
> Bottom line is that we should not rely on this optimization to work
> correctly for cache coherent devices in the general case. On the
> other hand, disabling this optimization for non-coherent devices
> is likely to cause breakage as well, since the driver will assume
> cache coherent PCIe if this optimization is turned off.
>
> So rename drm_arch_can_wc_memory() to drm_device_can_wc_memory(), and
> pass the drm_device pointer into it so we can base the return value
> on whether the device is cache coherent or not if not running on
> X86.
>
> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Zhou <David1.Zhou@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Junwei Zhang <Jerry.Zhang@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michel Daenzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <Carsten.Haitzler@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks sane to me, but I can't fully judge if the check is actually
correct or not.

So Acked-by: Christian KÃnig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> This is a followup to '[RFC PATCH] drm/ttm: force cached mappings for system
> RAM on ARM'
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20190110072841.3283-1-ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Without t
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c | 2 +-
> include/drm/drm_cache.h | 19 +++++++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> index 728e15e5d68a..777fa251838f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static int amdgpu_bo_do_create(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
> /* For architectures that don't support WC memory,
> * mask out the WC flag from the BO
> */
> - if (!drm_arch_can_wc_memory())
> + if (!drm_device_can_wc_memory(adev->ddev))
> bo->flags &= ~AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_CPU_GTT_USWC;
> #endif
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> index 833e909706a9..610889bf6ab5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ int radeon_bo_create(struct radeon_device *rdev,
> /* For architectures that don't support WC memory,
> * mask out the WC flag from the BO
> */
> - if (!drm_arch_can_wc_memory())
> + if (!drm_device_can_wc_memory(rdev->ddev))
> bo->flags &= ~RADEON_GEM_GTT_WC;
> #endif
>
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_cache.h b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> index bfe1639df02d..ced63b1207a3 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
> #ifndef _DRM_CACHE_H_
> #define _DRM_CACHE_H_
>
> +#include <drm/drm_device.h>
> +#include <linux/dma-noncoherent.h>
> #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
>
> void drm_clflush_pages(struct page *pages[], unsigned long num_pages);
> @@ -41,15 +43,16 @@ void drm_clflush_virt_range(void *addr, unsigned long length);
> u64 drm_get_max_iomem(void);
>
>
> -static inline bool drm_arch_can_wc_memory(void)
> +static inline bool drm_device_can_wc_memory(struct drm_device *ddev)
> {
> -#if defined(CONFIG_PPC) && !defined(CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE)
> - return false;
> -#elif defined(CONFIG_MIPS) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3)
> - return false;
> -#else
> - return true;
> -#endif
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC))
> + return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE);
> + else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS))
> + return !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3);
> + else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86))
> + return true;
> +
> + return !dev_is_dma_coherent(ddev->dev);
> }
>
> #endif