Re: [PATCH] media: venus: use contig vb2 ops

From: Stanimir Varbanov
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 08:55:40 EST

Hi Tomasz,

On 12/15/20 1:47 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:16 PM Stanimir Varbanov
> <stanimir.varbanov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Cc: Robin
>>
>> On 12/14/20 2:57 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>>> This driver uses the SG vb2 ops, but effectively only ever accesses the
>>> first entry of the SG table, indicating that it expects a flat layout.
>>> Switch it to use the contiguous ops to make sure this expected invariant
>>
>> Under what circumstances the sg table will has nents > 1? I came down to
>> [1] but not sure I got it right.
>>
>> I'm afraid that for systems with low amount of system memory and when
>> the memory become fragmented, the driver will not work. That's why I
>> started with sg allocator.
>
> It is exactly the opposite. The vb2-dma-contig allocator is "contig"
> in terms of the DMA (aka IOVA) address space. In other words, it
> guarantees that having one DMA address and length fully describes the

Ahh, I missed that part. Looks like I misunderstood videobu2 contig
allocator.

> buffer. This seems to be the requirement of the hardware/firmware
> handled by the venus driver. If the device is behind an IOMMU, which
> is the case for the SoCs in question, the underlying DMA ops will
> actually allocate a discontiguous set of pages, so it has nothing to
> do to system memory amount or fragmentation. If for some reason the
> IOMMU can't be used, there is no way around, the memory needs to be
> contiguous because of the hardware/firmware/driver expectation.
>
> On the other hand, the vb2-dma-sg allocator doesn't have any
> continuity guarantees for the DMA, or any other, address space. The
> current code works fine, because it calls dma_map_sg() on the whole
> set of pages and that ends up mapping it contiguously in the IOVA
> space, but that's just an implementation detail, not an API guarantee.

It was good to know. Thanks for the explanation.

>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10.1/source/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c#L782
>>
>>> is always enforced. Since the device is supposed to be behind an IOMMU
>>> this should have little to none practical consequences beyond making the
>>> driver not rely on a particular behavior of the SG implementation.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> It probably doesn't hurt to fix this issue before some actual issue happens.
>>> I have tested this patch on Chrome OS and playback was just as fine as with
>>> the SG ops.
>>>
>>> drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c | 9 ++-------
>>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c | 6 +++---
>>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/venc.c | 6 +++---
>>> 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/Kconfig b/drivers/media/platform/Kconfig
>>> index 35a18d388f3f..d9d7954111f2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/Kconfig
>>> @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ config VIDEO_QCOM_VENUS
>>> depends on INTERCONNECT || !INTERCONNECT
>>> select QCOM_MDT_LOADER if ARCH_QCOM
>>> select QCOM_SCM if ARCH_QCOM
>>> - select VIDEOBUF2_DMA_SG
>>> + select VIDEOBUF2_DMA_CONTIG
>>> select V4L2_MEM2MEM_DEV
>>> help
>>> This is a V4L2 driver for Qualcomm Venus video accelerator
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c
>>> index 50439eb1ffea..859d260f002b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/helpers.c
>>> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>>> #include <linux/mutex.h>
>>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>> #include <linux/kernel.h>
>>> -#include <media/videobuf2-dma-sg.h>
>>> +#include <media/videobuf2-dma-contig.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-mem2mem.h>
>>> #include <asm/div64.h>
>>>
>>> @@ -1284,14 +1284,9 @@ int venus_helper_vb2_buf_init(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
>>> struct venus_inst *inst = vb2_get_drv_priv(vb->vb2_queue);
>>> struct vb2_v4l2_buffer *vbuf = to_vb2_v4l2_buffer(vb);
>>> struct venus_buffer *buf = to_venus_buffer(vbuf);
>>> - struct sg_table *sgt;
>>> -
>>> - sgt = vb2_dma_sg_plane_desc(vb, 0);
>>> - if (!sgt)
>>> - return -EFAULT;
>>>
>>> buf->size = vb2_plane_size(vb, 0);
>>> - buf->dma_addr = sg_dma_address(sgt->sgl);
>>
>> Can we do it:
>>
>> if (WARN_ON(sgt->nents > 1))
>> return -EFAULT;
>>
>> I understand that logically using dma-sg when the flat layout is
>> expected by the hardware is wrong, but I haven't seen issues until now.
>>
>>> + buf->dma_addr = vb2_dma_contig_plane_dma_addr(vb, 0);
>>>
>>> if (vb->type == V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE)
>>> list_add_tail(&buf->reg_list, &inst->registeredbufs);
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> index 8488411204c3..3fb277c81aca 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/vdec.c
>>> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>>> #include <media/v4l2-event.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-ctrls.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-mem2mem.h>
>>> -#include <media/videobuf2-dma-sg.h>
>>> +#include <media/videobuf2-dma-contig.h>
>>>
>>> #include "hfi_venus_io.h"
>>> #include "hfi_parser.h"
>>> @@ -1461,7 +1461,7 @@ static int m2m_queue_init(void *priv, struct vb2_queue *src_vq,
>>> src_vq->io_modes = VB2_MMAP | VB2_DMABUF;
>>> src_vq->timestamp_flags = V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_COPY;
>>> src_vq->ops = &vdec_vb2_ops;
>>> - src_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_sg_memops;
>>> + src_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_contig_memops;
>>> src_vq->drv_priv = inst;
>>> src_vq->buf_struct_size = sizeof(struct venus_buffer);
>>> src_vq->allow_zero_bytesused = 1;
>>> @@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ static int m2m_queue_init(void *priv, struct vb2_queue *src_vq,
>>> dst_vq->io_modes = VB2_MMAP | VB2_DMABUF;
>>> dst_vq->timestamp_flags = V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_COPY;
>>> dst_vq->ops = &vdec_vb2_ops;
>>> - dst_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_sg_memops;
>>> + dst_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_contig_memops;
>>> dst_vq->drv_priv = inst;
>>> dst_vq->buf_struct_size = sizeof(struct venus_buffer);
>>> dst_vq->allow_zero_bytesused = 1;
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/venc.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/venc.c
>>> index 1c61602c5de1..a09550cd1dba 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/venc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/venc.c
>>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>>> #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
>>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-mem2mem.h>
>>> -#include <media/videobuf2-dma-sg.h>
>>> +#include <media/videobuf2-dma-contig.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-ioctl.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-event.h>
>>> #include <media/v4l2-ctrls.h>
>>> @@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ static int m2m_queue_init(void *priv, struct vb2_queue *src_vq,
>>> src_vq->io_modes = VB2_MMAP | VB2_USERPTR | VB2_DMABUF;
>>> src_vq->timestamp_flags = V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_COPY;
>>> src_vq->ops = &venc_vb2_ops;
>>> - src_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_sg_memops;
>>> + src_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_contig_memops;
>>> src_vq->drv_priv = inst;
>>> src_vq->buf_struct_size = sizeof(struct venus_buffer);
>>> src_vq->allow_zero_bytesused = 1;
>>> @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ static int m2m_queue_init(void *priv, struct vb2_queue *src_vq,
>>> dst_vq->io_modes = VB2_MMAP | VB2_USERPTR | VB2_DMABUF;
>>> dst_vq->timestamp_flags = V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_COPY;
>>> dst_vq->ops = &venc_vb2_ops;
>>> - dst_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_sg_memops;
>>> + dst_vq->mem_ops = &vb2_dma_contig_memops;
>>> dst_vq->drv_priv = inst;
>>> dst_vq->buf_struct_size = sizeof(struct venus_buffer);
>>> dst_vq->allow_zero_bytesused = 1;
>>>
>>
>> --
>> regards,
>> Stan

--
regards,
Stan