Re: [PATCH] drm: gem: add an option for supporting the dma-coherent hardware.
From: Paul Cercueil
Date: Wed Jun 07 2023 - 05:36:45 EST
Hi Sui,
Le mercredi 07 juin 2023 à 13:30 +0800, Sui Jingfeng a écrit :
> The single map_noncoherent member of struct drm_gem_dma_object may
> not
> sufficient for describing the backing memory of the GEM buffer
> object.
>
> Especially on dma-coherent systems, the backing memory is both cached
> coherent for multi-core CPUs and dma-coherent for peripheral device.
> Say architectures like X86-64, LoongArch64, Loongson Mips64, etc.
>
> Whether a peripheral device is dma-coherent or not can be
> implementation-dependent. The single map_noncoherent option is not
> enough
> to reflect real hardware anymore. For example, the Loongson LS3A4000
> CPU
> and LS2K2000/LS2K1000 SoC, peripheral device of such hardware
> platform
> allways snoop CPU's cache. Doing the allocation with
> dma_alloc_coherent
> function is preferred. The return buffer is cached, it should not
> using
> the default write-combine mapping. While with the current implement,
> there
> no way to tell the drm core to reflect this.
>
> This patch adds cached and coherent members to struct
> drm_gem_dma_object.
> which allow driver implements to inform the core. Introducing new
> mappings
> while keeping the original default behavior unchanged.
Did you try to simply set the "dma-coherent" property to the device's
node?
From what I understand if you add that property then Linux will use DMA
coherent memory even though you use dma_alloc_noncoherent() and the
sync_single_for_cpu() / sync_single_for_device() are then NOPs.
Cheers,
-Paul
> Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_dma_helper.c | 11 +++++------
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_dma.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig | 2 --
> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c | 4 +++-
> include/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.h | 7 +++++--
> 7 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_dma_helper.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_dma_helper.c
> index 3b535ad1b07c..93ff05041192 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_dma_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_dma_helper.c
> @@ -106,16 +106,15 @@ dma_addr_t drm_fb_dma_get_gem_addr(struct
> drm_framebuffer *fb,
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_fb_dma_get_gem_addr);
>
> /**
> - * drm_fb_dma_sync_non_coherent - Sync GEM object to non-coherent
> backing
> - * memory
> + * drm_fb_dma_sync_non_coherent - Sync GEM object to cached backing
> memory
> * @drm: DRM device
> * @old_state: Old plane state
> * @state: New plane state
> *
> * This function can be used by drivers that use damage clips and
> have
> - * DMA GEM objects backed by non-coherent memory. Calling this
> function
> - * in a plane's .atomic_update ensures that all the data in the
> backing
> - * memory have been written to RAM.
> + * DMA GEM objects backed by cached memory. Calling this function in
> a
> + * plane's .atomic_update ensures that all the data in the backing
> memory
> + * have been written to RAM.
> */
> void drm_fb_dma_sync_non_coherent(struct drm_device *drm,
> struct drm_plane_state *old_state,
> @@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ void drm_fb_dma_sync_non_coherent(struct
> drm_device *drm,
>
> for (i = 0; i < finfo->num_planes; i++) {
> dma_obj = drm_fb_dma_get_gem_obj(state->fb, i);
> - if (!dma_obj->map_noncoherent)
> + if (dma_obj->cached && dma_obj->coherent)
> continue;
>
> daddr = drm_fb_dma_get_gem_addr(state->fb, state, i);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_dma.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_dma.c
> index d86773fa8ab0..49fe9b284cc8 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_dma.c
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int drm_fbdev_dma_helper_fb_probe(struct
> drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
>
> /* screen */
> info->flags |= FBINFO_VIRTFB; /* system memory */
> - if (dma_obj->map_noncoherent)
> + if (dma_obj->cached)
> info->flags |= FBINFO_READS_FAST; /* signal caching
> */
> info->screen_size = sizes->surface_height * fb->pitches[0];
> info->screen_buffer = map.vaddr;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c
> index 870b90b78bc4..dec1d512bdf1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c
> @@ -93,7 +93,11 @@ __drm_gem_dma_create(struct drm_device *drm,
> size_t size, bool private)
> drm_gem_private_object_init(drm, gem_obj, size);
>
> /* Always use writecombine for dma-buf mappings */
> - dma_obj->map_noncoherent = false;
> + /* FIXME: This is not always true, on some dma
> coherent system,
> + * cached mappings should be preferred over
> writecombine
> + */
> + dma_obj->cached = false;
> + dma_obj->coherent = false;
> } else {
> ret = drm_gem_object_init(drm, gem_obj, size);
> }
> @@ -143,7 +147,11 @@ struct drm_gem_dma_object
> *drm_gem_dma_create(struct drm_device *drm,
> if (IS_ERR(dma_obj))
> return dma_obj;
>
> - if (dma_obj->map_noncoherent) {
> + if (dma_obj->cached && dma_obj->coherent) {
> + dma_obj->vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(drm->dev, size,
> + &dma_obj-
> >dma_addr,
> + GFP_KERNEL |
> __GFP_NOWARN);
> + } else if (dma_obj->cached && !dma_obj->coherent) {
> dma_obj->vaddr = dma_alloc_noncoherent(drm->dev,
> size,
> &dma_obj-
> >dma_addr,
> DMA_TO_DEVICE,
> @@ -153,6 +161,7 @@ struct drm_gem_dma_object
> *drm_gem_dma_create(struct drm_device *drm,
> &dma_obj->dma_addr,
> GFP_KERNEL |
> __GFP_NOWARN);
> }
> +
> if (!dma_obj->vaddr) {
> drm_dbg(drm, "failed to allocate buffer with size
> %zu\n",
> size);
> @@ -233,7 +242,10 @@ void drm_gem_dma_free(struct drm_gem_dma_object
> *dma_obj)
> dma_buf_vunmap_unlocked(gem_obj-
> >import_attach->dmabuf, &map);
> drm_prime_gem_destroy(gem_obj, dma_obj->sgt);
> } else if (dma_obj->vaddr) {
> - if (dma_obj->map_noncoherent)
> + if (dma_obj->cached && dma_obj->coherent)
> + dma_free_coherent(gem_obj->dev->dev, dma_obj-
> >base.size,
> + dma_obj->vaddr, dma_obj-
> >dma_addr);
> + else if (dma_obj->cached && !dma_obj->coherent)
> dma_free_noncoherent(gem_obj->dev->dev,
> dma_obj->base.size,
> dma_obj->vaddr, dma_obj-
> >dma_addr,
> DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> @@ -532,7 +544,7 @@ int drm_gem_dma_mmap(struct drm_gem_dma_object
> *dma_obj, struct vm_area_struct *
> vma->vm_pgoff -= drm_vma_node_start(&obj->vma_node);
> vm_flags_mod(vma, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_PFNMAP);
>
> - if (dma_obj->map_noncoherent) {
> + if (dma_obj->cached) {
> vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
>
> ret = dma_mmap_pages(dma_obj->base.dev->dev,
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> index 5ec75e9ba499..a3df2f99a757 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> @@ -919,7 +919,10 @@ ingenic_drm_gem_create_object(struct drm_device
> *drm, size_t size)
> if (!obj)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> - obj->map_noncoherent = priv->soc_info->map_noncoherent;
> + if (priv->soc_info->map_noncoherent) {
> + obj->cached = true;
> + obj->coherent = false;
> + }
>
> return &obj->base;
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-
> du/Kconfig
> index 53c356aed5d5..dddc70c08bdc 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig
> @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
> config DRM_RCAR_DU
> tristate "DRM Support for R-Car Display Unit"
> depends on DRM && OF
> - depends on ARM || ARM64
> - depends on ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
> select DRM_KMS_HELPER
> select DRM_GEM_DMA_HELPER
> select VIDEOMODE_HELPERS
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c
> index adfb36b0e815..1142d51473e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c
> @@ -386,7 +386,9 @@ struct drm_gem_object
> *rcar_du_gem_prime_import_sg_table(struct drm_device *dev,
> gem_obj->funcs = &rcar_du_gem_funcs;
>
> drm_gem_private_object_init(dev, gem_obj, attach->dmabuf-
> >size);
> - dma_obj->map_noncoherent = false;
> +
> + dma_obj->cached = false;
> + dma_obj->coherent = false;
>
> ret = drm_gem_create_mmap_offset(gem_obj);
> if (ret) {
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.h
> b/include/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.h
> index 8a043235dad8..585ce3d4d1eb 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ struct drm_mode_create_dumb;
> * more than one entry but they are guaranteed to have
> contiguous
> * DMA addresses.
> * @vaddr: kernel virtual address of the backing memory
> - * @map_noncoherent: if true, the GEM object is backed by non-
> coherent memory
> + * @cached: if true, the GEM object is backed by cached memory
> + * @coherent: This option only meaningful when a GEM object is
> cached.
> + * If true, Sync the GEM object for DMA access is not
> required.
> */
> struct drm_gem_dma_object {
> struct drm_gem_object base;
> @@ -26,7 +28,8 @@ struct drm_gem_dma_object {
> /* For objects with DMA memory allocated by GEM DMA */
> void *vaddr;
>
> - bool map_noncoherent;
> + bool cached;
> + bool coherent;
> };
>
> #define to_drm_gem_dma_obj(gem_obj) \