From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel 06/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Simplify DMA setup
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:55:50 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316055550.GG9032@voom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457504946-40649-7-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 05:29:02PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> NPU devices are quite specific, in fact they represent side DMA channel
> of a GPU device. The GPU/NPU driver never actually configures DMA
> for NPU devices, instead it relies on the platform code to propagate
> DMA setup to NPU devices when a main GPU device is being configured.
> When GPU is being set up, the same configuration - bypass or 32bit DMA -
> is used for NPU. This makes DMA setup explicit.
>
> pnv_npu_ioda_controller_ops::pnv_npu_dma_set_mask is moved to pci-ioda,
> made static and prints warning as dma_set_mask() should never be called
> on this function as in any case it will not configure GPU; so we make
> this explicit.
>
> Instead of using PNV_IODA_PE_PEER and peers[] (which next patch will
> remove), we test every PCI device if there are corresponding NVLink
> devices. If there are any, we propagate bypass mode to just found NPU
> devices by calling the setup helper directly (which takes @bypass) and
> avoid guessing (i.e. calculating from DMA mask) whether we need bypass
> or not on NPU devices. Since DMA setup happens in very rare occasion,
> this will not slow down booting or VFIO start/stop much.
>
> This renames pnv_npu_disable_bypass to pnv_npu_dma_set_32 to make it
> more clear what the function really does which is programming 32bit
> table address to the TVT ("disabling bypass" means writing zeroes to
> the TVT).
>
> This removes pnv_npu_dma_set_bypass() from pnv_npu_ioda_fixup() as
> the DMA configuration on NPU does not matter until dma_set_mask() is
> called on GPU and that will do the NPU DMA configuration.
>
> This removes phb->dma_dev_setup initialization for NPU as
> pnv_pci_ioda_dma_dev_setup is no-op for it anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
I'm having trouble making sense of the commit message, but the actual
changes look fine as best I can tell.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-16 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 6:28 [PATCH kernel 00/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Enable PCI pass through for NVLink Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-09 6:28 ` [PATCH kernel 01/10] vfio/spapr: Relax the IOMMU compatibility check Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:35 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 6:28 ` [PATCH kernel 02/10] powerpc/powernv: Rename pnv_pci_ioda2_tce_invalidate_entire Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:35 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 6:28 ` [PATCH kernel 03/10] powerpc/powernv: Define TCE Kill flags Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:36 ` David Gibson
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 04/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: TCE Kill helpers cleanup Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:42 ` David Gibson
2016-03-21 2:51 ` Alistair Popple
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 05/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Use the correct IOMMU page size Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-10 5:43 ` David Gibson
2016-03-21 2:57 ` Alistair Popple
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 06/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Simplify DMA setup Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-16 5:55 ` David Gibson [this message]
2016-03-21 3:59 ` Alistair Popple
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 07/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Rework TCE Kill handling Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-21 6:50 ` Alistair Popple
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 08/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Add NPU devices to IOMMU group Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-21 4:48 ` David Gibson
2016-03-21 8:25 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-22 0:25 ` David Gibson
2016-03-22 1:48 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-22 12:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 09/10] powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Export some helpers Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-03-09 6:29 ` [PATCH kernel 10/10] powerpc/powernv/npu: Enable passing through via VFIO Alexey Kardashevskiy
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