Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] msm/gpu/a6xx: use the DMA-API for GMU memory allocations

[John Stultz]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:27 AM Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON the GMU memory allocator runs afoul of
> cache coherency issues because it is mapped as write-combine without clearing
> the cache after it was zeroed.
>
> Rather than duplicate the hacky workaround we use in the GEM allocator for the
> same reason it turns out that we don't need to have a bespoke memory allocator
> for the GMU anyway. It uses a flat, global address space and there are only
> two relatively minor allocations anyway. In short, this is essentially what the
> DMA API was created for so replace a bunch of memory management code with two
> calls to allocate and free DMA memory and we're fine.
>
> The only wrinkle is that the memory allocations need to be in a very specific
> location in the GMU virtual address space so in order to get the iova allocator
> to do the right thing we need to specify the dma-ranges property in the device
> tree for the GMU node. Since we've not yet converted the GMU bindings over to
> YAML two patches quickly turn into four but at the end of it we have at least
> one bindings file converted to YAML and 99 less lines of code to worry about.
>
> v2: Fix the example bindings for dma-ranges - the third item is the size
> Pass false to of_dma_configure so that it fails probe if the DMA region is not
> set up.

This set still works for me as well. Thanks so much!
Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks
-john