Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] drm/sprd: add Unisoc's drm display controller driver

[Chunyan Zhang]

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On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 15:59, Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Robin,
>
> On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 00:35, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021-05-17 10:27, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 08:20:10PM +0800, Kevin Tang wrote:
>> >> Cc  Robin & Joerg
>> >
>> > This is just some GPU internal MMU being used here, it seems. It doesn't
>> > use the IOMMU core code, so no Ack needed from the IOMMU side.
>>
>> Except the actual MMU being used is drivers/iommu/sprd_iommu.c - this is
>
> Yes, it is using drivers/iommu/sprd_iommu.c.
>
>>
>>
>> just the display driver poking directly at the interrupt registers of
>> its associated IOMMU instance.
>
>
> Actually the display driver is poking its own interrupt registers in which some interrupts are caused by using IOMMU, others are purely its own ones:
> +/* Interrupt control & status bits */
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_DONE               BIT(0)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_TE                 BIT(1)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_ERR                        BIT(2)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_UPDATE_DONE                BIT(4)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_VSYNC              BIT(5)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_MMU_VAOR_RD                BIT(16)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_MMU_VAOR_WR                BIT(17)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_MMU_INV_RD         BIT(18)
> +#define BIT_DPU_INT_MMU_INV_WR         BIT(19)
>
> From what I see in the product code, along with the information my colleagues told me, these _INT_MMU_ interrupts only need to be dealt with by client devices(i.e. display). IOMMU doesn't even have the INT_STS register for some early products which we're trying to support in the mainstream kernel.
>
>>
>> I still think this is wrong, and that it
>> should be treated as a shared interrupt, with the IOMMU driver handling
>> its own registers and reporting to the client through the standard
>> report_iommu_fault() API, especially since there are apparently more
>> blocks using these IOMMU instances than just the display.
>
> For the next generation IOMMU, we will handle interrupts in IOMMU drivers like you say here.
> But like I explained above, we have to leave interrupt handling in the client device driver since the IOMMU we 're using in this display device doesn't have an INT_STS register in the IOMMU register range.
>
> Thanks for the review,
> Chunyan
>
>>
>> Robin.