Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752579AbaGLL0n (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:26:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:40872 "EHLO mail-ie0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbaGLL0k (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:26:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140712093917.GD18601@arm.com> References: <1404487757-18829-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <20140712093917.GD18601@arm.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:26:39 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] devicetree: Add generic IOMMU device tree bindings From: Rob Clark To: Will Deacon Cc: Thierry Reding , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Stephen Warren , Arnd Bergmann , Joerg Roedel , Olav Haugan , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Grant Grundler , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marc Zyngier , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , Varun Sethi , Cho KyongHo , Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Hiroshi Doyu , linux-arm-msm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:55:14PM +0100, Rob Clark wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Thierry Reding >> wrote: >> > From: Thierry Reding >> ok, so I was working through this to try to convert my >> {qcom,msm}-iommu-v0 RFC over to using these bindings. For background, >> I was initially using something that looked a bit more like the >> current arm-smmu bindings: >> >> gpu { >> #stream-id-cells = <16>; >> ... >> }; >> >> gfx3d: qcom,iommu@7c00000 { >> compatible = "qcom,iommu-v0"; >> ... >> mmu-masters = >> /* gfx3d_user: */ >> <&gpu 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15>, >> /* gfx3d_priv: */ >> <&gpu 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31>; >> }; >> >> gfx3d1: qcom,iommu@7d00000 { >> compatible = "qcom,iommu-v0"; >> ... >> mmu-masters = >> /* gfx3d_user: */ >> <&gpu 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15>, >> /* gfx3d_priv: */ >> <&gpu 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31>; >> }; >> >> With my current arrangement, I have everything I need when the iommu >> device is probed to set up each of the context banks >> >> This proposal inverts that relationship. Which forces me to do a lot >> more (including DT parsing) on device attach. Which I'm not a huge >> fan of. Ie. if I even wanted to try to implement per-process >> pagetables for gpu without completely going behind the IOMMU API's >> back, I would want attach/detach to be as lightweight as possible. > > I think we'd have to walk the entire device-tree at IOMMU probe time in > order to enumerate the masters, which sounds horrible... If we want to do > clever SMR allocation on the ARM SMMU (as I've been discussing with Olav), > we're going to need knowledge about *all* the valid Stream IDs in the system > before we can program *any* translations. I guess walking the whole tree would work.. but it really doesn't really sound like a nice solution ;-) also, I'm not really sure to what extent it is bad form to assume the tree is static. >> Was there actually a good reason for having the device link to the >> iommu rather than the other way around? How much would people hate it >> if I just ignore the generic bindings and use something that works for >> me instead. I mean, it isn't exactly like there is going to be .dts >> re-use across different SoC's.. and at least with current IOMMU API >> some sort of of_get_named_iommu() API doesn't really make sense. > > The thing is, if you end up ignoring the generic binding then we have two > IOMMUs using the same (ARM SMMU) binding and it begs the question as to > which is the more generic! I know we're keen to get this merged, but merging > something that people won't use and calling it generic doesn't seem ideal > either. We do, however, desperately need a generic binding. yeah, ignoring the generic binding is not my first choice. I'd rather have something that works well for everyone. But I wasn't really sure if the current proposal was arbitrary, or if there are some conflicting requirements between different platforms. > Turning the question around; Thierry -- what are the issue in using > something like the ARM SMMU binding (master device IDs held in the IOMMU > node) for the nvidia IOMMU? +1 for doing it more like how arm-smmu is currently.. that works much better for me :-) BR, -R > Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/