Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: set IO TLB segment size via cmdline

Roman Skakun
2021-09-17T09:36:23Z

Hi, Christoph

I use Xen PV display. In my case, PV display backend(Dom0) allocates
contiguous buffer via DMA-API to
to implement zero-copy between Dom0 and DomU.

When I start Weston under DomU, I got the next log in Dom0:
```
[ 112.554471] CPU: 0 PID: 367 Comm: weston Tainted: G O
5.10.0-yocto-standard+ #312
[ 112.575149] Call trace:
[ 112.577666] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b0
[ 112.581373] show_stack+0x18/0x70
[ 112.584746] dump_stack+0xd0/0x12c
[ 112.588200] swiotlb_tbl_map_single+0x234/0x360
[ 112.592781] xen_swiotlb_map_page+0xe4/0x4c0
[ 112.597095] xen_swiotlb_map_sg+0x84/0x12c
[ 112.601249] dma_map_sg_attrs+0x54/0x60
[ 112.605138] vsp1_du_map_sg+0x30/0x60
[ 112.608851] rcar_du_vsp_map_fb+0x134/0x170
[ 112.613082] rcar_du_vsp_plane_prepare_fb+0x44/0x64
[ 112.618007] drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes+0xac/0x160
[ 112.623362] drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x88/0x390
[ 112.628029] drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit+0x4c/0x60
[ 112.633043] drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x9a8/0xb0c
[ 112.637532] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xc4/0x11c
[ 112.641506] drm_ioctl+0x21c/0x460
[ 112.644967] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xf0
[ 112.648939] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x78/0x1a0
[ 112.653775] do_el0_svc+0x24/0x90
[ 112.657148] el0_svc+0x14/0x20
[ 112.660254] el0_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0
[ 112.664315] el0_sync+0x174/0x180
[ 112.668145] rcar-fcp fea2f000.fcp: swiotlb buffer is full (sz:
3686400 bytes), total 65536 (slots), used 112 (slots)
```
The problem is happened here:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14.4/source/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_vsp.c#L202

Sgt was created in dma_get_sgtable() by dma_common_get_sgtable() and
includes a single page chunk
as shown here:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14.5/source/kernel/dma/ops_helpers.c#L18

After creating a new sgt, we tried to map this sgt through vsp1_du_map_sg().
Internally, vsp1_du_map_sg() using ops->map_sg (e.g
xen_swiotlb_map_sg) to perform
mapping.

I realized that required segment is too big to be fitted to default
swiotlb segment and condition
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c#L474
is always false.

I know that I use a large buffer, but why can't I map this buffer in one chunk?

Thanks!

ср, 15 сент. 2021 г. в 16:53, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>:
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > But the question remains: Why does the framebuffer need to be mapped
> > in a single giant chunk?
>
> More importantly: if you use dynamic dma mappings for your framebuffer
> you're doing something wrong.

--
Best Regards, Roman.