Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix SOCs with DDR starting above zero

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Elad Nachman <enachman@marvell.com>
Cc: will@kernel.org, thunder.leizhen@huawei.com, bhe@redhat.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, yajun.deng@linux.dev,
	chris.zjh@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix SOCs with DDR starting above zero
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 19:21:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZhWya4EK45lLbds@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240103170002.1793197-1-enachman@marvell.com>

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 07:00:02PM +0200, Elad Nachman wrote:
> From: Elad Nachman <enachman@marvell.com>
> 
> Some SOCs, like the Marvell AC5/X/IM, have a combination
> of DDR starting at 0x2_0000_0000 coupled with DMA controllers
> limited to 31 and 32 bit of addressing.
> This requires to properly arrange ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 for
> these SOCs, so swiotlb and coherent DMA allocation would work
> properly.
> Change initialization so device tree dma zone bits are taken as
> function of offset from DRAM start, and when calculating the
> maximal zone physical RAM address for physical DDR starting above
> 32-bit, combine the physical address start plus the zone mask
> passed as parameter.
> This creates the proper zone splitting for these SOCs:
> 0..2GB for ZONE_DMA
> 2GB..4GB for ZONE_DMA32
> 4GB..8GB for ZONE_NORMAL

Please see this discussion:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZU0QEL9ByWNYVki1@arm.com/

and follow-up patches from Baruch, though I haven't reviewed them yet:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/fae5b1180161a7d8cd626a96f5df80b0a0796b8b.1703683642.git.baruch@tkos.co.il/

The problem is that the core code pretty much assumes that DRAM starts
from 0. No matter how you massage the zones in the arm64 kernel for your
case, memblock_start_of_DRAM() + (2 << zone_dma_bits) won't be a power
of two and therefore zone_dma_bits in the core code cannot describe what
you need.

I can see Baruch added a zone_dma_off assuming it's the same for all
DMA-capable devices on that SoC (well, those with a coherent mask
smaller than 64-bit). I need to think a bit more about this.

Anyway, we first need to address the mask/bits comparisons in the core
code, maybe changing bits to a physical limit instead and take the
device DMA offset into account. After that we can look at how to
correctly set up the DMA zones on arm64.

-- 
Catalin

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