Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] drm/etnaviv: add support for the dma coherent device

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 06:59:43PM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> From: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Loongson CPUs maintain cache coherency by hardware, which means that the
> data in the CPU cache is identical to the data in main system memory. As
> for the peripheral device, most of Loongson chips chose to define the
> peripherals as DMA coherent by default, device drivers do not need to
> maintain the coherency between a processor and an I/O device manually.
> 
> There are exceptions, for LS2K1000 SoC, part of peripheral device can be
> configured as dma non-coherent. But there is no released version of such
> firmware exist in the market. Peripherals of older ls2k1000 is also DMA
> non-conherent, but they are nearly outdated. So, those are trivial cases.

s/dma/DMA/
s/non-conherent/non-coherent/
s/ls2k1000/LS2K1000/

I guess when you say these are "trivial cases," you mean you don't
care about supporting those devices?

> Nevertheless, kernel space still need to do probe work, because vivante GPU
> IP has been integrated into various platform. Hence, this patch add runtime
> detection code to probe if a specific gpu is DMA coherent, If the answer is
> yes, we are going to utilize such features. On Loongson platfform, When a
> buffer is accesed by both the GPU and the CPU, The driver should prefer
> ETNA_BO_CACHED over ETNA_BO_WC.

s/gpu/GPU/
s/platfform/platform/
s/accesed/accessed/

I guess the only way to discover this coherency attribute is via the
DT "vivante,gc" property?  Seems a little weird but I'm really not a
DT person.

> This patch also add a new parameter: etnaviv_param_gpu_coherent, which
> allow userspace to know if such a feature is available. Because
> write-combined BO is still preferred in some case, especially where don't
> need CPU read, for example, uploading shader bin.
> ...

> +static struct device_node *etnaviv_of_first_available_node(void)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *core_node;
> +
> +	for_each_compatible_node(core_node, NULL, "vivante,gc") {
> +		if (!of_device_is_available(core_node))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		return core_node;
> +	}
> +
> +	return NULL;

Seems like this would be simpler as:

  for_each_compatible_node(core_node, NULL, "vivante,gc") {
    if (of_device_is_available(core_node))
      return core_node;
  }

  return NULL;

> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-fence.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
> +#include <linux/dma-map-ops.h>

It looks like this #include might not be needed?  You're only adding a
new reference to priv->dma_coherent, which looks like it was added to
etnaviv_drv.h.

>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/of_device.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> @@ -164,6 +165,10 @@ int etnaviv_gpu_get_param(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu, u32 param, u64 *value)
>  		*value = gpu->identity.eco_id;
>  		break;
>  
> +	case ETNAVIV_PARAM_GPU_COHERENT:
> +		*value = priv->dma_coherent;
> +		break;
> +
>  	default:
>  		DBG("%s: invalid param: %u", dev_name(gpu->dev), param);
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -1861,7 +1866,7 @@ static int etnaviv_gpu_register_irq(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu, int irq)
>  
>  	gpu->irq = irq;
>  
> -	dev_info(dev, "IRQ handler registered, irq = %d\n", irq);
> +	dev_info(dev, "irq(%d) handler registered\n", irq);

Looks possibly unnecessary, or at least unrelated to this patch.

>  	return 0;
>  }