Thanks for the feedback Robin!
Sorry my choices of word weren't that great, but what I meant is to
understand how ARM flushes a range of dcache for device drivers, and not
an equal to x86 clflush.
I believe the concern is if the CPU writes an update, that update might
only be sitting in the CPU cache and never make it to device memory
where the device can see it; there are specific places that we are
supposed to flush the CPU caches to make sure our updates are visible to
the hardware.
+Matt Roper
Matt, Lucas, any feed back here?
On 2022-03-02 4:49 a.m., Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2022-02-25 19:27, Michael Cheng wrote:
Hi Robin,
[ +arm64 maintainers for their awareness, which would have been a
good thing to do from the start ]
* Thanks for adding the arm64 maintainer and sorry I didn't rope them
in sooner.
Why does i915 need to ensure the CPU's instruction cache is coherent
with its data cache? Is it a self-modifying driver?
* Also thanks for pointing this out. Initially I was using
dcache_clean_inval_poc, which seem to be the equivalently to what
x86 is doing for dcache flushing, but it was giving me build errors
since its not on the global list of kernel symbols. And after
revisiting the documentation for caches_clean_inval_pou, it won't
fly for what we are trying to do. Moving forward, what would you (or
someone in the ARM community) suggest we do? Could it be possible to
export dcache_clean_inval_poc as a global symbol?
Unlikely, unless something with a legitimate need for CPU-centric
cache maintenance like kexec or CPU hotplug ever becomes modular.
In the case of a device driver, it's not even the basic issues of
assuming to find direct equivalents to x86 semantics in other CPU
architectures, or effectively reinventing parts of the DMA API, it's
even bigger than that. Once you move from being integrated in a single
vendor's system architecture to being on a discrete card, you
fundamentally *no longer have any control over cache coherency*.
Whether the host CPU architecture happens to be AArch64, RISC-V, or
whatever doesn't really matter, you're at the mercy of 3rd-party PCIe
and interconnect IP vendors, and SoC integrators. You'll find yourself
in systems where PCIe simply cannot snoop any caches, where you'd
better have the correct DMA API calls in place to have any hope of
even the most basic functionality working properly; you'll find
yourself in systems where even if the PCIe root complex claims to
support No Snoop, your uncached traffic will still end up snooping
stale data that got prefetched back into caches you thought you'd
invalidated; you'll find yourself in systems where your memory
attributes may or may not get forcibly rewritten by an IOMMU depending
on the kernel config and/or command line.
It's not about simply finding a substitute for clflush, it's that the
reasons you have for using clflush in the first place can no longer be
assumed to be valid.
Robin.
On 2022-02-25 10:24 a.m., Robin Murphy wrote:
[ +arm64 maintainers for their awareness, which would have been a
good thing to do from the start ]
On 2022-02-25 03:24, Michael Cheng wrote:
Add arm64 support for drm_clflush_virt_range. caches_clean_inval_pou
performs a flush by first performing a clean, follow by an
invalidation
operation.
v2 (Michael Cheng): Use correct macro for cleaning and invalidation
the
dcache. Thanks Tvrtko for the suggestion.
v3 (Michael Cheng): Replace asm/cacheflush.h with linux/cacheflush.h
v4 (Michael Cheng): Arm64 does not export dcache_clean_inval_poc as a
symbol that could be use by other modules, thus use
caches_clean_inval_pou instead. Also this version
removes include for cacheflush, since its already
included base on architecture type.
Signed-off-by: Michael Cheng <michael.cheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
index c3e6e615bf09..81c28714f930 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
@@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ drm_clflush_virt_range(void *addr, unsigned
long length)
if (wbinvd_on_all_cpus())
pr_err("Timed out waiting for cache flush\n");
+
+#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
+ void *end = addr + length;
+ caches_clean_inval_pou((unsigned long)addr, (unsigned long)end);
Why does i915 need to ensure the CPU's instruction cache is coherent
with its data cache? Is it a self-modifying driver?
Robin.
(Note that the above is somewhat of a loaded question, and I do
actually have half an idea of what you're trying to do here and why
it won't fly, but I'd like to at least assume you've read the
documentation of the function you decided was OK to use)
+
#else
WARN_ONCE(1, "Architecture has no drm_cache.c support\n");
#endif
