Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drm/etnaviv: use a 32 bit mask as coherent DMA mask

From: Lucas Stach
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 08:41:47 EST


Hi Robin,

Am Mittwoch, dem 01.12.2021 um 12:50 +0000 schrieb Robin Murphy:
> Sorry I missed this earlier...
>
> On 2021-09-07 17:49, Michael Walle wrote:
> > The STLB and the first command buffer (which is used to set up the TLBs)
> > has a 32 bit size restriction in hardware. There seems to be no way to
> > specify addresses larger than 32 bit. Keep it simple and restict the
> > addresses to the lower 4 GiB range for all coherent DMA memory
> > allocations.
> >
> > Please note, that platform_device_alloc() will initialize dev->dma_mask
> > to point to pdev->platform_dma_mask, thus dma_set_mask() will work as
> > expected.
> >
> > While at it, move the dma_mask setup code to the of_dma_configure() to
> > keep all the DMA setup code next to each other.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
> > index 54eb653ca295..0b756ecb1bc2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c
> > @@ -613,6 +613,24 @@ static int etnaviv_pdev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > component_match_add(dev, &match, compare_str, names[i]);
> > }
> >
> > + /*
> > + * PTA and MTLB can have 40 bit base addresses, but
> > + * unfortunately, an entry in the MTLB can only point to a
> > + * 32 bit base address of a STLB. Moreover, to initialize the
> > + * MMU we need a command buffer with a 32 bit address because
> > + * without an MMU there is only an indentity mapping between
> > + * the internal 32 bit addresses and the bus addresses.
> > + *
> > + * To make things easy, we set the dma_coherent_mask to 32
> > + * bit to make sure we are allocating the command buffers and
> > + * TLBs in the lower 4 GiB address space.
> > + */
> > + if (dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(40)) ||
> > + dma_set_coherent_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
>
> Since AFAICS you're not changing the default dma_mask pointer to point
> to some storage other than the coherent mask, the dma_set_mask() call
> effectively does nothing and both masks will end up reading back as 32 bits.
>
>From what I can see the dma_mask has allocated storage in the platform
device and does not point to the coherent dma mask, see
setup_pdev_dma_masks().

Regards,
Lucas

> Robin.
>
> > + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "No suitable DMA available\n");
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
> > +
> > /*
> > * Apply the same DMA configuration to the virtual etnaviv
> > * device as the GPU we found. This assumes that all Vivante
> > @@ -671,8 +689,6 @@ static int __init etnaviv_init(void)
> > of_node_put(np);
> > goto unregister_platform_driver;
> > }
> > - pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(40);
> > - pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
> >
> > ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
> > if (ret) {
> >