Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Enhance pmem DMA bypass handling

[Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 10/23/21 7:18 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/10/2021 07:18, Brian King wrote:
>> On 10/22/21 7:24 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22/10/2021 04:44, Brian King wrote:
>>>> If ibm,pmemory is installed in the system, it can appear anywhere
>>>> in the address space. This patch enhances how we handle DMA for devices when
>>>> ibm,pmemory is present. In the case where we have enough DMA space to
>>>> direct map all of RAM, but not ibm,pmemory, we use direct DMA for
>>>> I/O to RAM and use the default window to dynamically map ibm,pmemory.
>>>> In the case where we only have a single DMA window, this won't work, > so if the window is not big enough to map the entire address range,
>>>> we cannot direct map.
>>>
>>> but we want the pmem range to be mapped into the huge DMA window too if we can, why skip it?
>>
>> This patch should simply do what the comment in this commit mentioned below suggests, which says that
>> ibm,pmemory can appear anywhere in the address space. If the DMA window is large enough
>> to map all of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS, we will indeed simply do direct DMA for everything,
>> including the pmem. If we do not have a big enough window to do that, we will do
>> direct DMA for DRAM and dynamic mapping for pmem.
> 
> 
> Right, and this is what we do already, do not we? I missing something here.

The upstream code does not work correctly that I can see. If I boot an upstream kernel
with an nvme device and vpmem assigned to the LPAR, and enable dev_dbg in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c,
I see the following in the logs:

[    2.157549] nvme 0121:50:00.0: ibm,query-pe-dma-windows(53) 500000 8000000 20000121 returned 0
[    2.157561] nvme 0121:50:00.0: Skipping ibm,pmemory
[    2.157567] nvme 0121:50:00.0: can't map partition max 0x8000000000000 with 16777216 65536-sized pages
[    2.170150] nvme 0121:50:00.0: ibm,create-pe-dma-window(54) 500000 8000000 20000121 10 28 returned 0 (liobn = 0x70000121 starting addr = 8000000 0)
[    2.170170] nvme 0121:50:00.0: created tce table LIOBN 0x70000121 for /pci@800000020000121/pci1014,683@0
[    2.356260] nvme 0121:50:00.0: node is /pci@800000020000121/pci1014,683@0

This means we are heading down the leg in enable_ddw where we do not set direct_mapping to true. We use
create the DDW window, but don't do any direct DMA. This is because the window is not large enough to
map 2PB of memory, which is what ddw_memory_hotplug_max returns without my patch. 

With my patch applied, I get this in the logs:

[    2.204866] nvme 0121:50:00.0: ibm,query-pe-dma-windows(53) 500000 8000000 20000121 returned 0
[    2.204875] nvme 0121:50:00.0: Skipping ibm,pmemory
[    2.205058] nvme 0121:50:00.0: ibm,create-pe-dma-window(54) 500000 8000000 20000121 10 21 returned 0 (liobn = 0x70000121 starting addr = 8000000 0)
[    2.205068] nvme 0121:50:00.0: created tce table LIOBN 0x70000121 for /pci@800000020000121/pci1014,683@0
[    2.215898] nvme 0121:50:00.0: iommu: 64-bit OK but direct DMA is limited by 800000200000000


Thanks,

Brian


> 
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>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c?id=bf6e2d562bbc4d115cf322b0bca57fe5bbd26f48
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
>>>>    1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
>>>> index 269f61d519c2..d9ae985d10a4 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
>>>> @@ -1092,15 +1092,6 @@ static phys_addr_t ddw_memory_hotplug_max(void)
>>>>        phys_addr_t max_addr = memory_hotplug_max();
>>>>        struct device_node *memory;
>>>>    -    /*
>>>> -     * The "ibm,pmemory" can appear anywhere in the address space.
>>>> -     * Assuming it is still backed by page structs, set the upper limit
>>>> -     * for the huge DMA window as MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
>>>> -     */
>>>> -    if (of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "ibm,pmemory"))
>>>> -        return (sizeof(phys_addr_t) * 8 <= MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) ?
>>>> -            (phys_addr_t) -1 : (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS);
>>>> -
>>>>        for_each_node_by_type(memory, "memory") {
>>>>            unsigned long start, size;
>>>>            int n_mem_addr_cells, n_mem_size_cells, len;
>>>> @@ -1341,6 +1332,16 @@ static bool enable_ddw(struct pci_dev *dev, struct device_node *pdn)
>>>>         */
>>>>        len = max_ram_len;
>>>>        if (pmem_present) {
>>>> +        if (default_win_removed) {
>>>> +            /*
>>>> +             * If we only have one DMA window and have pmem present,
>>>> +             * then we need to be able to map the entire address
>>>> +             * range in order to be able to do direct DMA to RAM.
>>>> +             */
>>>> +            len = order_base_2((sizeof(phys_addr_t) * 8 <= MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) ?
>>>> +                    (phys_addr_t) -1 : (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS));
>>>> +        }
>>>> +
>>>>            if (query.largest_available_block >=
>>>>                (1ULL << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - page_shift)))
>>>>                len = MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS;
>>>>
>>>
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