Re: revert dma direct internals abuse

hch
2019-04-09T15:25:53Z

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:17:40PM +0000, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> If that's the case, I think most of the graphics drivers will stop
> functioning. I don't think people would want that, and even if the
> graphics drivers are "to blame" due to not implementing the sync calls,
> I think the work involved to get things right is impressive if at all
> possible.

Note that this only affects external, untrusted devices. But that
may include eGPU, so yes GPU folks finally need to up their game and
stop thinking they are above the law^H^H^Hinterface.

> There are two things that concerns me with dma_alloc_coherent:
>
> 1) It seems to want pages mapped either in the kernel map or vmapped.
> Graphics drivers allocate huge amounts of memory, Typically up to 50%
> of system memory or more. In a 32 bit PAE system I'm afraid of running
> out of vmap space as well as not being able to allocate as much memory
> as I want. Perhaps a dma_alloc_coherent() interface that returns a page
> rather than a virtual address would do the trick.

We can't just simply export a page. For devices that are not cache
coherent we need to remap the returned memory to be uncached. In the
common cases that is either done by setting an uncached bit in the page
tables, or by using a special address space alias. So the virtual
address to access the page matter, and we can't just kmap a random
page an expect it to be coherent. If you want memory that is not
mapped into the kernel direct mapping and DMA to it you need to
use the proper DMA streaming interface and obey their rules.

> 2) Exporting using dma-buf. A page allocated using dma_alloc_coherent()
> for one device might not be coherent for another device. What happens
> if I allocate a page using dma_alloc_coherent() for device 1 and then
> want to map it using dma_map_page() for device 2?

The problem in this case isn't really the coherency - once a page
is mapped uncached it is 'coherent' for all devices, even those not
requiring it. The problem is addressability - the DMA address for
the same memory might be different for different devices, and something
that looks contigous to one device that is using an IOMMU might not
for another one using the direct mapping.

We have the dma_get_sgtable API to map a piece of coherent memory
using the streaming APIs for another device, but it has all sorts of
problems.

That being said: your driver already uses the dma coherent API
under various circumstances, so you already have the above issues.

In the end swiotlb_nr_tbl() might be the best hint that some bounce
buffering could happen. This isn't proper use of the API, but at
least a little better than your old intel_iommu_emabled check
and much better than we we have right now. Something like this:

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
index 6165fe2c4504..ff00bea026c5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
@@ -545,21 +545,6 @@ static void vmw_get_initial_size(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
dev_priv->initial_height = height;
}

-/**
- * vmw_assume_iommu - Figure out whether coherent dma-remapping might be
- * taking place.
- * @dev: Pointer to the struct drm_device.
- *
- * Return: true if iommu present, false otherwise.
- */
-static bool vmw_assume_iommu(struct drm_device *dev)
-{
- const struct dma_map_ops *ops = get_dma_ops(dev->dev);
-
- return !dma_is_direct(ops) && ops &&
- ops->map_page != dma_direct_map_page;
-}
-
/**
* vmw_dma_select_mode - Determine how DMA mappings should be set up for this
* system.
@@ -581,25 +566,14 @@ static int vmw_dma_select_mode(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
[vmw_dma_map_populate] = "Keeping DMA mappings.",
[vmw_dma_map_bind] = "Giving up DMA mappings early."};

- if (vmw_force_coherent)
- dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_alloc_coherent;
- else if (vmw_assume_iommu(dev_priv->dev))
- dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_map_populate;
- else if (!vmw_force_iommu)
- dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_phys;
- else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SWIOTLB) && swiotlb_nr_tbl())
+ if (vmw_force_coherent ||
+ (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SWIOTLB) && swiotlb_nr_tbl()))
dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_alloc_coherent;
+ else if (vmw_restrict_iommu)
+ dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_map_bind;
else
dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_map_populate;

- if (dev_priv->map_mode == vmw_dma_map_populate && vmw_restrict_iommu)
- dev_priv->map_mode = vmw_dma_map_bind;
-
- /* No TTM coherent page pool? FIXME: Ask TTM instead! */
- if (!(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SWIOTLB) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU)) &&
- (dev_priv->map_mode == vmw_dma_alloc_coherent))
- return -EINVAL;
-
DRM_INFO("DMA map mode: %s\n", names[dev_priv->map_mode]);
return 0;
}