Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62x-sk-common: Reserve 128MiB of global CMA

[Nishanth Menon]

On 16:44-20230803, Devarsh Thakkar wrote:
> Reserve 128MiB of global CMA which is also marked as re-usable
> so that OS can also use the same if peripheral drivers are not using the
> same.
> 
> AM62x supports multimedia components such as GPU, dual Display and Camera.
> Assuming the worst-case scenario where all 3 are run in parallel below
> is the calculation :
> 
> 1) OV5640 camera sensor supports 1920x1080 resolution
> -> 1920 width x 1080 height x 2 bytesperpixel x 8 buffers
>    (default in yavta) : 32MiB
> 
> 2) 1920x1200 Microtips LVDS panel supported
> -> 1920 width x 1080 height x 4 bytesperpixel x 2 buffers :
>    16 MiB
> 
> 3) 1920x1080 HDMI display supported
> -> 1920 width x 1080 height x 4 bytesperpixel x 2 buffers :
>    15.82 MiB which is ~16 MiB
> 
> 4) IMG GPU shares with display allocated buffers while rendering
>    but in case some dedicated operation viz color conversion,
>    keeping same window of ~16 MiB for GPU too.
> 
> Total is 80 MiB and adding 32 MiB for other peripherals and extra
> 16 MiB to keep as buffer for fragmentation thus rounding total to 128
> MiB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Devarsh Thakkar <devarsht@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Darren Etheridge <detheridge@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
> ---

I don't think this is right approach. There are other techniques
than having to do this (Andrew: please comment) and require drivers to
behave properly. I am esp concerned since there are platforms based on
am62x and just 256MB DDR.

>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62x-sk-common.dtsi | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62x-sk-common.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62x-sk-common.dtsi
> index 34c8ffc553ec..9dd6e23ca9ca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62x-sk-common.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62x-sk-common.dtsi
> @@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ ramoops@9ca00000 {
>  			pmsg-size = <0x8000>;
>  		};
>  
> +		/* global cma region */
> +		linux,cma {
> +			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> +			reusable;
> +			size = <0x00 0x8000000>;
> +			linux,cma-default;
> +		};
> +
>  		secure_tfa_ddr: tfa@9e780000 {
>  			reg = <0x00 0x9e780000 0x00 0x80000>;
>  			alignment = <0x1000>;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

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