Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Deucher <> | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:01:37 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm: enable uncached DMA optimization for ARM and arm64 |
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:31, Koenig, Christian > <Christian.Koenig@amd.com> wrote: > > > > Am 24.01.19 um 13:06 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel: > > > The DRM driver stack is designed to work with cache coherent devices > > > only, but permits an optimization to be enabled in some cases, where > > > for some buffers, both the CPU and the GPU use uncached mappings, > > > removing the need for DMA snooping and allocation in the CPU caches. > > > > > > The use of uncached GPU mappings relies on the correct implementation > > > of the PCIe NoSnoop TLP attribute by the platform, otherwise the GPU > > > will use cached mappings nonetheless. On x86 platforms, this does not > > > seem to matter, as uncached CPU mappings will snoop the caches in any > > > case. However, on ARM and arm64, enabling this optimization on a > > > platform where NoSnoop is ignored results in loss of coherency, which > > > breaks correct operation of the device. Since we have no way of > > > detecting whether NoSnoop works or not, just disable this > > > optimization entirely for ARM and arm64. > > > > > > Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com> > > > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> > > > Cc: David Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com> > > > Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> > > > Cc: Junwei Zhang <Jerry.Zhang@amd.com> > > > Cc: Michel Daenzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> > > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> > > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> > > > Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> > > > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> > > > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> > > > Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> > > > Cc: amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org> > > > Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> > > > Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <Carsten.Haitzler@arm.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> > > > > The subject line should probably read "disable uncached...". > > > > Ugh, of course ... > > > With that fixed the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König > > <christian.koenig@amd.com>. > >
Same: Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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