Re: [PATCH] drm: Permit video-buffers writecombine mapping for MIPS

[Serge Semin]

Hello folks,

Any updates of this patch status? It has been here for about two months.

Regards,
-Sergey

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:31:22PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Since commit 4b050ba7a66c ("MIPS: pgtable.h: Implement the
> pgprot_writecombine function for MIPS") and commit c4687b15a848 ("MIPS: Fix
> definition of pgprot_writecombine()") write-combine vma mapping is
> available to be used by kernel subsystems for MIPS. In particular the
> uncached accelerated attribute is requested to be set by ioremap_wc()
> method and by generic PCI memory pages/ranges mapping methods. The same
> is done by the drm_io_prot()/ttm_io_prot() functions in case if
> write-combine flag is set for vma's passed for mapping. But for some
> reason the pgprot_writecombine() method calling is ifdefed to be a
> platform-specific with MIPS system being marked as lacking of one. At the
> very least it doesn't reflect the current MIPS platform implementation.
> So in order to improve the DRM subsystem performance on MIPS with UCA
> mapping enabled, we need to have pgprot_writecombine() called for buffers,
> which need store operations being combined. In case if particular MIPS
> chip doesn't support the UCA attribute, the mapping will fall back to
> noncached.
> 
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vadim V. Vlasov <vadim.vlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c          | 5 +++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> index c3301046dfaa..50178dc64060 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ static pgprot_t drm_io_prot(struct drm_local_map *map,
>  	/* We don't want graphics memory to be mapped encrypted */
>  	tmp = pgprot_decrypted(tmp);
>  
> -#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__powerpc__)
> +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__powerpc__) || \
> +    defined(__mips__)
>  	if (map->type == _DRM_REGISTERS && !(map->flags & _DRM_WRITE_COMBINING))
>  		tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
>  	else
> @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ static pgprot_t drm_io_prot(struct drm_local_map *map,
>  		tmp = pgprot_writecombine(tmp);
>  	else
>  		tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
> -#elif defined(__sparc__) || defined(__arm__) || defined(__mips__)
> +#elif defined(__sparc__) || defined(__arm__)
>  	tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
>  #endif
>  	return tmp;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
> index 895d77d799e4..9f918b992f7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
> @@ -539,13 +539,13 @@ pgprot_t ttm_io_prot(uint32_t caching_flags, pgprot_t tmp)
>  		tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
>  #endif
>  #if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
> -    defined(__powerpc__)
> +    defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__mips__)
>  	if (caching_flags & TTM_PL_FLAG_WC)
>  		tmp = pgprot_writecombine(tmp);
>  	else
>  		tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
>  #endif
> -#if defined(__sparc__) || defined(__mips__)
> +#if defined(__sparc__)
>  	tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
>  #endif
>  	return tmp;
> -- 
> 2.21.0
>