Re: [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH v5 7/7] ARM: STiH407: Move over to using the 'reserved-memory' API for obtaining DMA memory

[Peter Griffin]

Hi Lee,

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Peter Griffin wrote:
> 
> > Hi Lee,
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > Doing so saves quite a bit of code in the driver.
> > > 
> > > For more information on the 'reserved-memory' bindings see:
> > > 
> > >   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > index 15c20b6..27b8efc 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > @@ -15,6 +15,36 @@
> > >  	#address-cells = <1>;
> > >  	#size-cells = <1>;
> > >  
> > > +	reserved-memory {
> > > +		#address-cells = <1>;
> > > +		#size-cells = <1>;
> > > +		ranges;
> > > +
> > > +		gp0_reserved: rproc@40000000 {
> > > +			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> > > +			reg = <0x40000000 0x01000000>;
> > > +			no-map;
> > > +		};
> > > +
> > > +		gp1_reserved: rproc@41000000 {
> > > +			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> > > +			reg = <0x41000000 0x01000000>;
> > > +			no-map;
> > > +		};
> > > +
> > > +		audio_reserved: rproc@42000000 {
> > > +			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> > > +			reg = <0x42000000 0x01000000>;
> > > +			no-map;
> > > +		};
> > > +
> > > +		dmu_reserved: rproc@43000000 {
> > > +			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> > > +			reg = <0x43000000 0x01000000>;
> > > +			no-map;
> > > +		};
> > 
> > I don't believe these reserved memory ranges are correct for audio_reserved and dmu_reserved.
> > 
> > For example my vid_firmware-stih407.elf is linked at 0x41c00000 base address and my
> > audio_firmware-bd-stih407.elf is linked at 0x40c00000.
> > 
> > So with all the st231 rproc nodes enabled I guess it would still work. But
> > currently I think st231_gp0 is reserving the memory region for st231_audio,
> > and st231-gp1 is reserving the memory region for st231_dmu.
> 
> These addresses are taken from internally tested code. 

Yes I did check the internal kernel, it would appear to be wrong there as
well. One of the joys of mailing list code review I guess :-)

> I don't have
> access to the LMI layout documentation (if it even exists) so can't
> check for myself.

>  Isn't this just DDR anyway? 

Yes it is DDR

> So in theory we can
> configure each devices' slice where ever we feel is appropriate? 

Nope. The st231 audio and video firmwares are provided by ST as binary blobs and
aren't AFAIK compiled as position independent code. So the reserved-memory region
needs to match where the firmware has been linked to run from.

> How
> is memory allocated to the DMU and Audio drivers?  Do you have scripts
> which link the aforementioned binaries?

I don't have any scripts, firmware source code or even a st200 toolset.

> 
> If you think there is an issue, I suggest the best thing to do is ping
> Ludovic, since he is the author of the original code.

Ok I will ping Ludovic and point him at this thread.

I think maybe the internal kernel rproc driver was only used to reserve memory,
manage clocks, and co-processor reset / power lines, and multicom actually
loaded the firmware elf file.

The reason for coming to that conclusion is that if rproc driver was loading the
firmware I can't see how you would end up with a correctly booted co-processor
with a reserved-memory node which doesn't match up with where the firmware is linked to
run from.

Did you manage to boot audio or video co-pro successfully with the dt nodes as
they currently are in this patch?

regards,

Peter.