Re: [Freedreno] [PATCH v12 04/13] iommu: Add a domain attribute to get/set a pagetable configuration

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:19 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 08:11:02AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 6:14 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 04:26:48PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > > > Add domain attribute DOMAIN_ATTR_PGTABLE_CFG. This will be used by
> > > > arm-smmu to share the current pagetable configuration with the
> > > > leaf driver and to allow the leaf driver to set up a new pagetable
> > > > configuration under certain circumstances.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > >  include/linux/iommu.h | 1 +
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> > > > index fee209efb756..995ab8c47ef2 100644
> > > > --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> > > > @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ enum iommu_attr {
> > > >       DOMAIN_ATTR_FSL_PAMUV1,
> > > >       DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING,    /* two stages of translation */
> > > >       DOMAIN_ATTR_DMA_USE_FLUSH_QUEUE,
> > > > +     DOMAIN_ATTR_PGTABLE_CFG,
> > > >       DOMAIN_ATTR_MAX,
> > > >  };
> > >
> > > Nobody other than the adreno gpu uses this, so can we avoid exposing it
> > > in the IOMMU API, please? Given that you have a reference to the adreno
> > > GPU device in the SMMU implementation code thanks to .alloc_context_bank(),
> > > can you squirrel some function pointers away in the driver data (i.e. with
> > > dev_set_drvdata()) instead?
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, we are already using drvdata on the gpu side, and it looks like
> > arm-smmu is also using it.  Could we get away with stashing an extra
> > 'void *' in iommu_domain itself?
>
> What I meant was, expose the type of whatever you put in there on the GPU
> side so that the SMMU impl can install its function pointers into a field of
> that structure. As far as I'm concerned, the SMMU impl code and the GPU
> driver are the same entity and we should keep their communication private,
> rather than expose it up the stack. After all, the GPU writes to the SMMU
> registers!
>
> If you really don't want to expose all of your gubbins, I suppose you
> could have a structure just for the SMMU view and container_of() out of
> that on the GPU side.

yeah, msm_gpu has a lot of internal state.. but I suppose we could
define a 'struct adreno_smmu_priv' and embed that in msm_gpu, and
throw in a get_gpu_drvdata() type wrapper for get_drvdata() to make
this not totally horrible in the various cases places that use
get_drvdata() currently.

BR,
-R



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