Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add support to use system cache

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Thu May 23 2019 - 06:44:23 EST


On 2019-05-16 10:30 am, Vivek Gautam wrote:
Few Qualcomm platforms such as, sdm845 have an additional outer
cache called as System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC) that
allows non-coherent devices to upgrade to using caching.
This cache sits right before the DDR, and is tightly coupled
with the memory controller. The clients using this cache request
their slices from this system cache, make it active, and can then
start using it.

There is a fundamental assumption that non-coherent devices can't
access caches. This change adds an exception where they *can* use
some level of cache despite still being non-coherent overall.
The coherent devices that use cacheable memory, and CPU make use of
this system cache by default.

Looking at memory types, we have following -
a) Normal uncached :- MAIR 0x44, inner non-cacheable,
outer non-cacheable;
b) Normal cached :- MAIR 0xff, inner read write-back non-transient,
outer read write-back non-transient;
attribute setting for coherenet I/O devices.
and, for non-coherent i/o devices that can allocate in system cache
another type gets added -
c) Normal sys-cached :- MAIR 0xf4, inner non-cacheable,
outer read write-back non-transient

Coherent I/O devices use system cache by marking the memory as
normal cached.
Non-coherent I/O devices should mark the memory as normal
sys-cached in page tables to use system cache.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

There's a remote possibility that the IOMMU prot flag might be able to be somewhat generalised in future for panfrost, as Mali appears to have some pretty funky notions of cacheability, but this certainly looks fine for now, thanks.

Robin.

---

V3 version of this patch and related series can be found at [1].
V4 of this patch is available at [2].

The example usage of how a smmu master can make use of this protection
flag and set the correct memory attributes to start using system cache,
can be found at [3]; and here at [3] IOMMU_UPSTREAM_HINT is same as
IOMMU_QCOM_SYS_CACHE.

Changes since v4:
- Changed ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_QCOM_SYS_CACHE to
ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_INC_OWBRWA.
- Changed ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_QCOM_SYS_CACHE to
ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE.
- Added comments to iommu protection flag - IOMMU_QCOM_SYS_CACHE.

Changes since v3:
- Dropping support to cache i/o page tables to system cache. Getting support
for data buffers is the first step.
Removed io-pgtable quirk and related change to add domain attribute.

Glmark2 numbers on SDM845 based cheza board:

S.No.| with LLC support | without LLC support
| for data buffers |
---------------------------------------------------
1 | 4480; 72.3fps | 4042; 65.2fps
2 | 4500; 72.6fps | 4039; 65.1fps
3 | 4523; 72.9fps | 4106; 66.2fps
4 | 4489; 72.4fps | 4104; 66.2fps
5 | 4518; 72.9fps | 4072; 65.7fps

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10772629/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1072936/
[3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10302791/

drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 9 ++++++++-
include/linux/iommu.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
index 4e21efbc4459..2454ac11aa97 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
@@ -167,10 +167,12 @@
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_MASK 0xff
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE 0x04
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_NC 0x44
+#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_INC_OWBRWA 0xf4
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_WBRWA 0xff
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_NC 0
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_CACHE 1
#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_DEV 2
+#define ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE 3
#define ARM_MALI_LPAE_TTBR_ADRMODE_TABLE (3u << 0)
#define ARM_MALI_LPAE_TTBR_READ_INNER BIT(2)
@@ -470,6 +472,9 @@ static arm_lpae_iopte arm_lpae_prot_to_pte(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data,
else if (prot & IOMMU_CACHE)
pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_CACHE
<< ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
+ else if (prot & IOMMU_QCOM_SYS_CACHE)
+ pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE
+ << ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
}
if (prot & IOMMU_NOEXEC)
@@ -857,7 +862,9 @@ arm_64_lpae_alloc_pgtable_s1(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg, void *cookie)
(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_WBRWA
<< ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_SHIFT(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_CACHE)) |
(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE
- << ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_SHIFT(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_DEV));
+ << ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_SHIFT(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_DEV)) |
+ (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_INC_OWBRWA
+ << ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_SHIFT(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE));
cfg->arm_lpae_s1_cfg.mair[0] = reg;
cfg->arm_lpae_s1_cfg.mair[1] = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
index a815cf6f6f47..8ee3fbaf5855 100644
--- a/include/linux/iommu.h
+++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@
* if the IOMMU page table format is equivalent.
*/
#define IOMMU_PRIV (1 << 5)
+/*
+ * Non-coherent masters on few Qualcomm SoCs can use this page protection flag
+ * to set correct cacheability attributes to use an outer level of cache -
+ * last level cache, aka system cache.
+ */
+#define IOMMU_QCOM_SYS_CACHE (1 << 6)
struct iommu_ops;
struct iommu_group;