Re: [PATCH V10 04/22] LoongArch: Add writecombine support for drm

From: Huacai Chen
Date: Sun May 15 2022 - 07:51:12 EST


Hi, Xuerui,

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 12:19 PM WANG Xuerui <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/14/22 16:03, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > LoongArch maintains cache coherency in hardware, but its WUC attribute
> > (Weak-ordered UnCached, which is similar to WC) is out of the scope of
> > cache coherency machanism. This means WUC can only used for write-only
> > memory regions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c | 2 +-
> > include/drm/drm_cache.h | 8 ++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> > index e957d4851dc0..f024dc93939e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
> > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static pgprot_t drm_io_prot(struct drm_local_map *map,
> > pgprot_t tmp = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
> >
> > #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__powerpc__) || \
> > - defined(__mips__)
> > + defined(__mips__) || defined(__loongarch__)
> > if (map->type == _DRM_REGISTERS && !(map->flags & _DRM_WRITE_COMBINING))
> > tmp = pgprot_noncached(tmp);
> > else
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> > index a3ad7c9736ec..b3fffe7b5062 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ pgprot_t ttm_prot_from_caching(enum ttm_caching caching, pgprot_t tmp)
> > #endif /* CONFIG_UML */
> > #endif /* __i386__ || __x86_64__ */
> > #if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
> > - defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__mips__)
> > + defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__mips__) || defined(__loongarch__)
> > if (caching == ttm_write_combined)
> > tmp = pgprot_writecombine(tmp);
> > else
> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_cache.h b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> > index 22deb216b59c..08e0e3ffad13 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> > @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ static inline bool drm_arch_can_wc_memory(void)
> > * optimization entirely for ARM and arm64.
> > */
> > return false;
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_LOONGARCH)
> > + /*
> > + * LoongArch maintains cache coherency in hardware, but its WUC attribute
> > + * (Weak-ordered UnCached, which is similar to WC) is out of the scope of
> > + * cache coherency machanism. This means WUC can only used for write-only
> > + * memory regions.
> > + */
> > + return false;
> > #else
> > return true;
> > #endif
>
> The code changes look reasonable, given the adequate comments, but have
> the drm people given acks? This seems to exclusively touch drm bits and
> not directly related to arch bring-up. (You may get scrambled screen
> output but everything else is working, I'm running my LoongArch devbox
> headlessly ever since I first set it up last year.)
>
> If anything, IMO you could even take this patch out and still get the
> arch properly brought up. What do others think?
Thanks, I think I should add Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Huacai
>
> Nevertheless,
>
> Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xxxxxxxxxx>
>