Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751982AbaGNGYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:24:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:34588 "EHLO mail-wg0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750750AbaGNGYg (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:24:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:24:29 +0200 From: Thierry Reding To: Rob Clark Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Will Deacon , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Stephen Warren , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] devicetree: Add generic IOMMU device tree bindings Message-ID: <20140714062428.GC2081@ulmo> References: <1404487757-18829-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <20140712093917.GD18601@arm.com> <201407121422.02078.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Izn7cH1Com+I3R9J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Izn7cH1Com+I3R9J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 08:57:31AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: [...] > > The way that Thierry's binding does that is the obvious solution to thi= s, > > and it mirrors what we do in practically every other subsystem. I defin= itely > > want the SMMU to change before anybody starts using it in a real system, > > which we fortunately do not have yet. >=20 > hmm, well if some of the things I need for (like this or batching > mappings) are too weird and gpu specific, I'm willing to duplicate the > IOMMU driver in drm/msm. It really isn't so much code, and that gives > me a lot more more flexibility to do crazy things... at some point I'm > probably going to want to do context switches by banging the IOMMU > registers directly from the gpu. If the IOMMU API doesn't provide for what you need, then perhaps it's time to enhance it? We do that all the time in other parts of the kernel, why should IOMMU be special? It seems to me like context switching for per-process address space isolation is one of the important features of an IOMMU. If the current API doesn't let you do that then we should think of ways how it can be improved. And if it doesn't do it fast enough, then we should equally find ways to speed it up. This is part of why I think it would be good to have explicit objects associated with IOMMU contexts. That would give us a good place to add caching for this kind of situation. Currently we're required to handle most of this in drivers (map from struct device to context, ...). Thierry --Izn7cH1Com+I3R9J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTw3ecAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhllsP/0whPnL6702VkDlPpAixjHP5 +OlYxfOT2jq0i53kyyqU2zhyn7L9wDnSLrqozvLD3TEdX+qxKKqiIMl8t1wSeT/P hBoi8mtjxAAcOR/Ip5Hxl6T4OduLADaDVfsA3ox/wpz3fd9XveHBYqogM0md8vbw 8G5OafkQKOm60H/U9W++zeZRXxBEhenSkrazP4+5z7VNJSd5wQ/eQ01f7utMvJAe c886gQLlNh6bccRsDWqQ91qL/sYbFN0vjgyauBwFxaPzJeQh5QpFN6WoUj5aUe3b e3J/zNvnb7Pr9CqzA/3prmXc12ZGARIzAEUnwTWXz0zUM0Khs1Y7lTC5mRAEpyiy 3pTH4oDoWye6VuXtNeWqJUWfl7g9wfOP9/tWS4KmWpZg5ZGOVWN0XThHHk6/9iWd 44ta//jqbewjNHTIu3nlqTsqfMKKANuddmzpGipn4ap/CAz98Dl3IlU2fESM+5c3 UkckwetgVTj7pmwUpywUmyC7nbLD/MBOOSj9VWPv0Yw/GfyQRTLRP//iLMx1lefL 4zRqj1F6qL1lJsiHNlJ/9IQwRUmIZMfU0h7tTrnZI+TNpAvlBPQDVgso5/uVNNjf IGEbgLjDUqKVXtfmIQ8573k7vvrNv/QdtIX+NLjCXKwmmhLDI236J2eE4ntyfedA 9PqClBrpwDTMzs7CRMTK =EgGu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Izn7cH1Com+I3R9J-- -- 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/