Re: [PATCH 10/20] dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Add compatible string for Adreno GPU SMMU

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:36 AM Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:03 AM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:03 PM Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Every Qcom Adreno GPU has an embedded SMMU for its own use. These
> > > devices depend on unique features such as split pagetables,
> > > different stall/halt requirements and other settings. Identify them
> > > with a compatible string so that they can be identified in the
> > > arm-smmu implementation specific code.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.yaml | 4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.yaml
> > > index 503160a7b9a0..5ec5d0d691f6 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.yaml
> > > @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ properties:
> > >                - qcom,sm8150-smmu-500
> > >                - qcom,sm8250-smmu-500
> > >            - const: arm,mmu-500
> > > +      - description: Qcom Adreno GPUs implementing "arm,smmu-v2"
> > > +        items:
> > > +          - const: qcom,adreno-smmu
> > > +          - const: qcom,smmu-v2
> >
> > I know I'm kinda late to the game, but this seems weird to me,
> > especially given the later patches in the series like:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817220238.603465-19-robdclark@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Specifically in that patch you can see that this IOMMU already had a
> > compatible string and we're changing it and throwing away the
> > model-specific string?  I'm guessing that you're just trying to make
> > it easier for code to identify the adreno iommu, but it seems like a
> > better way would have been to just add the adreno compatible in the
> > middle, like:
> >
> >       - description: Qcom Adreno GPUs implementing "arm,smmu-v2"
> >         items:
> >           - enum:
> >               - qcom,msm8996-smmu-v2
> >               - qcom,msm8998-smmu-v2
> >               - qcom,sc7180-smmu-v2
> >               - qcom,sdm845-smmu-v2
> >         - const: qcom,adreno-smmu
> >         - const: qcom,smmu-v2
> >
> > Then we still have the SoC-specific compatible string in case we need
> > it but we also have the generic one?  It also means that we're not
> > deleting the old compatible string...
>
> I did bring up the thing about removing the compat string in an
> earlier revision of the series.. but then we realized that
> qcom,sc7180-smmu-v2 was never actually used anywhere.

Right, so at least there's not going to be weird issues where landing
the dts before the code change will break anything.


> But I guess we could:  compatible = "qcom,sc7180-smmu-v2",
> "qcom,adreno-smmu", "qcom,smmu-v2";

Yeah, that was what I was suggesting.

-Doug



[Index of Archives]     [Device Tree Compilter]     [Device Tree Spec]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux PCI Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Yosemite Backpacking]


  Powered by Linux