Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Allow non-coherent masters to use system cache

Will Deacon
2021-01-06T11:57:06Z

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:10:07PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> commit ecd7274fb4cd ("iommu: Remove unused IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY flag")
> removed unused IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY prot flag and along with it went
> the memory type setting required for the non-coherent masters to use
> system cache. Now that system cache support for GPU is added, we will
> need to mark the memory as normal sys-cached for GPU to use system cache.
> Without this, the system cache lines are not allocated for GPU. We use
> the IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_OUTER_WBWA quirk instead of a page protection
> flag as the flag cannot be exposed via DMA api because of no in-tree
> users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> index 7c9ea9d7874a..3fb7de8304a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ static arm_lpae_iopte arm_lpae_prot_to_pte(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data,
> else if (prot & IOMMU_CACHE)
> pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_CACHE
> << ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
> + else if (data->iop.cfg.quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_OUTER_WBWA)
> + pte |= (ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_INC_OCACHE
> + << ARM_LPAE_PTE_ATTRINDX_SHIFT);
> }

drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c currently documents this quirk as applying only
to the page-table walker. Given that we only have one user at the moment,
I think it's ok to change that, but please update the comment.

We also need to decide on whether we want to allow the quirk to be passed
if the coherency of the page-table walker differs from the DMA device, since
we have these combinations:

Coherent walker? IOMMU_CACHE IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_ARM_OUTER_WBWA
0: N 0 0
1: N 0 1
2: N 1 0
3: N 1 1
4: Y 0 0
5: Y 0 1
6: Y 1 0
7: Y 1 1

Some of them are obviously bogus, such as (7), but I don't know what to
do about cases such as (3) and (5).

Will