Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Raspberry Pi 4 DMA addressing support

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Nicolas,

Am 09.09.19 um 11:58 schrieb Nicolas Saenz Julienne:
> Hi all,
> this series attempts to address some issues we found while bringing up
> the new Raspberry Pi 4 in arm64 and it's intended to serve as a follow
> up of these discussions:
> v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/6/352
> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/2/589
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/20/767
> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/31/922
> RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/17/476
>
> The new Raspberry Pi 4 has up to 4GB of memory but most peripherals can
> only address the first GB: their DMA address range is
> 0xc0000000-0xfc000000 which is aliased to the first GB of physical
> memory 0x00000000-0x3c000000. Note that only some peripherals have these
> limitations: the PCIe, V3D, GENET, and 40-bit DMA channels have a wider
> view of the address space by virtue of being hooked up trough a second
> interconnect.
>
> Part of this is solved on arm32 by setting up the machine specific
> '.dma_zone_size = SZ_1G', which takes care of reserving the coherent
> memory area at the right spot. That said no buffer bouncing (needed for
> dma streaming) is available at the moment, but that's a story for
> another series.
>
> Unfortunately there is no such thing as 'dma_zone_size' in arm64. Only
> ZONE_DMA32 is created which is interpreted by dma-direct and the arm64
> arch code as if all peripherals where be able to address the first 4GB
> of memory.
>
> In the light of this, the series implements the following changes:
>
> - Create both DMA zones in arm64, ZONE_DMA will contain the first 1G
>   area and ZONE_DMA32 the rest of the 32 bit addressable memory. So far
>   the RPi4 is the only arm64 device with such DMA addressing limitations
>   so this hardcoded solution was deemed preferable.
>
> - Properly set ARCH_ZONE_DMA_BITS.
>
> - Reserve the CMA area in a place suitable for all peripherals.
>
> This series has been tested on multiple devices both by checking the
> zones setup matches the expectations and by double-checking physical
> addresses on pages allocated on the three relevant areas GFP_DMA,
> GFP_DMA32, GFP_KERNEL:
>
> - On an RPi4 with variations on the ram memory size. But also forcing
>   the situation where all three memory zones are nonempty by setting a 3G
>   ZONE_DMA32 ceiling on a 4G setup. Both with and without NUMA support.
>
i like to test this series on Raspberry Pi 4 and i have some questions
to get arm64 running:

Do you use U-Boot? Which tree?
Are there any config.txt tweaks necessary?