Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] drm/shmem-helpers: Allocate wc pages on x86

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Am 23.07.21 um 09:36 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 08:40:56PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi

Am 13.07.21 um 22:51 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
[SNIP]
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+	if (shmem->map_wc)
+		set_pages_array_wc(pages, obj->size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+#endif
I cannot comment much on the technical details of the caching of various
architectures. If this patch goes in, there should be a longer comment that
reflects the discussion in this thread. It's apparently a workaround.

I think the call itself should be hidden behind a DRM API, which depends on
CONFIG_X86. Something simple like

ifdef CONFIG_X86
drm_set_pages_array_wc()
{
	set_pages_array_wc();
}
else
drm_set_pages_array_wc()
  {
  }
#endif

Maybe in drm_cache.h?
We do have a bunch of this in drm_cache.h already, and architecture
maintainers hate us for it.

Yeah, for good reasons :)

The real fix is to get at the architecture-specific wc allocator, which is
currently not something that's exposed, but hidden within the dma api. I
think having this stick out like this is better than hiding it behind fake
generic code (like we do with drm_clflush, which defacto also only really
works on x86).

The DMA API also doesn't really touch that stuff as far as I know.

What we rather do on other architectures is to set the appropriate caching flags on the CPU mappings, see function ttm_prot_from_caching().

Also note that ttm has the exact same ifdef in its page allocator, but it
does fall back to using dma_alloc_coherent on other platforms.

This works surprisingly well on non x86 architectures as well. We just don't necessary update the kernel mappings everywhere which limits the kmap usage.

In other words radeon and nouveau still work on PowerPC AGP systems as far as I know for example.

Christian.

-Daniel

Best regard
Thomas

+
   	shmem->pages = pages;
   	return 0;
@@ -203,6 +212,11 @@ static void drm_gem_shmem_put_pages_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem)
   	if (--shmem->pages_use_count > 0)
   		return;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+	if (shmem->map_wc)
+		set_pages_array_wb(shmem->pages, obj->size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+#endif
+
   	drm_gem_put_pages(obj, shmem->pages,
   			  shmem->pages_mark_dirty_on_put,
   			  shmem->pages_mark_accessed_on_put);

--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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