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From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:23:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: enable uncached DMA optimization for ARM and arm64
To:     "Koenig, Christian" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>,
        "Daenzer, Michel" <Michel.Daenzer@amd.com>,
        Carsten Haitzler <Carsten.Haitzler@arm.com>,
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 11:35, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wr=
ote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 12:30, Christian K=C3=B6nig
> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Am 25.01.19 um 09:43 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:01, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ard Biesheuvel
> > >> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:31, Koenig, Christian
> > >>> <Christian.Koenig@amd.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Am 24.01.19 um 13:06 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> > >>>>> The DRM driver stack is designed to work with cache coherent devi=
ces
> > >>>>> only, but permits an optimization to be enabled in some cases, wh=
ere
> > >>>>> for some buffers, both the CPU and the GPU use uncached mappings,
> > >>>>> removing the need for DMA snooping and allocation in the CPU cach=
es.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> The use of uncached GPU mappings relies on the correct implementa=
tion
> > >>>>> of the PCIe NoSnoop TLP attribute by the platform, otherwise the =
GPU
> > >>>>> will use cached mappings nonetheless. On x86 platforms, this does=
 not
> > >>>>> seem to matter, as uncached CPU mappings will snoop the caches in=
 any
> > >>>>> case. However, on ARM and arm64, enabling this optimization on a
> > >>>>> platform where NoSnoop is ignored results in loss of coherency, w=
hich
> > >>>>> breaks correct operation of the device. Since we have no way of
> > >>>>> detecting whether NoSnoop works or not, just disable this
> > >>>>> optimization entirely for ARM and arm64.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: David Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Junwei Zhang <Jerry.Zhang@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Michel Daenzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> > >>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
> > >>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
> > >>>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > >>>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > >>>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> > >>>>> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> > >>>>> Cc: amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
> > >>>>> Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
> > >>>>> Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <Carsten.Haitzler@arm.com>
> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > >>>> The subject line should probably read "disable uncached...".
> > >>>>
> > >>> Ugh, of course ...
> > >>>
> > >>>> With that fixed the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian K=C3=B6nig
> > >>>> <christian.koenig@amd.com>.
> > >>>>
> > >> Same:
> > >> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > >>
> > > Thanks all
> > >
> > > Should I resend the patch with the subject corrected?
> >
> > I will update the subject line and push it upstream through
> > drm-misc-next if nobody objects.
> >
>
> Wonderful, thanks.

Hi Christian,

Are you still planning to merge this for v5.1?

Thanks,
Ard.