Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dma-buf: heaps: Add heap name definitions

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 9:30 AM Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi TJ,
>
> Thanks for your review
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:03:41PM +0200, T.J. Mercier wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 4:41 PM Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Following a recent discussion at last Plumbers, John Stultz, Sumit
> > > Sewal, TJ Mercier and I came to an agreement that we should document
> > > what the dma-buf heaps names are expected to be, and what the buffers
> > > attributes you'll get should be documented.
> > >
> > > Let's create that doc to make sure those attributes and names are
> > > guaranteed going forward.
> >
> > Hey, thanks for sending this!
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> > > To: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst | 71 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst         |  1 +
> > >  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..00436227b542
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
> > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +
> > > +==============================
> > > +Allocating dma-buf using heaps
> > > +==============================
> > > +
> > > +Dma-buf Heaps are a way for userspace to allocate dma-buf objects. They are
> > > +typically used to allocate buffers from a specific allocation pool, or to share
> > > +buffers across frameworks.
> > > +
> > > +Heaps
> > > +=====
> > > +
> > > +A heap represent a specific allocator. The Linux kernel currently supports the
> >
> > "represents"
> >
> > > +following heaps:
> > > +
> > > + - The ``system`` heap allocates virtually contiguous, cacheable, buffers
> >
> > Virtually contiguous sounds a little weird to me here. Sure, that's
> > what userspace will get when it maps the buffer (and I guess this *is*
> > UAPI documentation after all), but I'm not sure it's correct to say
> > that's a property of the buffer itself? What if we invert this and
> > instead say that there is NO guarantee that the memory for the buffer:
> >  - is physically contiguous
> >  - has any particular alignment (greater than page aligned)
> >  - has any particular page size (large order allocations are attempted
> > first, but not guaranteed or even likely on some systems)
> >  - has bounds on physical addresses
> >
> > Maybe that is too much detail here...
>
> Yeah, I don't know.
>
> It's getting philosophical, but I guess there's an infinite number of
> guarantees we wouldn't provide. It seems easier for me to maintain a
> list of the things a buffer is/has rather than the opposite.
>
> But maybe we can rephrase virtually contiguous if it's weird to you?

You're right, I'm being too picky here. Virtually contiguous is as
reasonable as anything else I can come up with.

> > > +
> > > + - The ``reserved`` heap allocates physically contiguous, cacheable, buffers.
> > > +   Depending on the platform, it might be called differently:
> > > +
> > > +    - Acer Iconia Tab A500: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Allwinner sun4i, sun5i and sun7i families: ``default-pool``
> > > +    - Amlogic A1: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Amlogic G12A/G12B/SM1: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Amlogic GXBB/GXL: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - ASUS EeePad Transformer TF101: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - ASUS Google Nexus 7 (Project Bach / ME370TG) E1565: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - ASUS Google Nexus 7 (Project Nakasi / ME370T) E1565: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - ASUS Google Nexus 7 (Project Nakasi / ME370T) PM269: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Asus Transformer Infinity TF700T: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Asus Transformer Pad 3G TF300TG: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Asus Transformer Pad TF300T: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Asus Transformer Pad TF701T: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Asus Transformer Prime TF201: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - ASUS Vivobook S 15: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Cadence KC705: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Digi International ConnectCore 6UL: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Freescale i.MX8DXL EVK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Freescale TQMa8Xx: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Hisilicon Hikey: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Lenovo ThinkPad X13s: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - LG Optimus 4X HD P880: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - LG Optimus Vu P895: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Loongson 2k0500, 2k1000 and 2k2000: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Microsoft Romulus: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - NXP i.MX8ULP EVK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - NXP i.MX93 9x9 QSB: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - NXP i.MX93 11X11 EVK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - NXP i.MX93 14X14 EVK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - NXP i.MX95 19X19 EVK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Ouya Game Console: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Pegatron Chagall: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - PHYTEC phyCORE-AM62A SOM: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - PHYTEC phyCORE-i.MX93 SOM: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Qualcomm SC8280XP CRD: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Qualcomm X1E80100 CRD: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Qualcomm X1E80100 QCP: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - RaspberryPi: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Texas Instruments AM62x SK board family: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Texas Instruments AM62A7 SK: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - Toradex Apalis iMX8: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems i.MX8MM TQMa8MxML: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems i.MX8MN TQMa8MxNL: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems i.MX8MPlus TQMa8MPxL: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems i.MX8MQ TQMa8MQ: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems i.MX93 TQMa93xxLA/TQMa93xxCA SOM: ``linux,cma``
> > > +    - TQ-Systems MBA6ULx Baseboard: ``linux,cma``
> > > +
> >
> > This part LGTM. Might be worth it to document that a CMA region must
> > be specified on the kernel command line. Otherwise this heap won't
> > show up at runtime by only enabling the kernel configs necessary to
> > build it.
>
> Really? My understanding was that you need a default CMA region, which
> happens either if you have cma= on the kernel command line, a default
> CMA pool in the DT, or if CMA_SIZE_MBYTES isn't set to 0?

Ok yes, these too. :)
>
> Maxime





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