On 2021-04-09 14:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 09.04.21 15:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 1:21 PM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Random drivers should not override a user configuration of core knobs
(e.g., CONFIG_DMA_CMA=n). Applicable drivers would like to use DMA_CMA,
which depends on CMA, if possible; however, these drivers also have to
tolerate if DMA_CMA is not available/functioning, for example, if no CMA
area for DMA_CMA use has been setup via "cma=X". In the worst case, the
driver cannot do it's job properly in some configurations.
For example, commit 63f5677544b3 ("drm/etnaviv: select CMA and
DMA_CMA if
available") documents
While this is no build dependency, etnaviv will only work
correctly
on most systems if CMA and DMA_CMA are enabled. Select both
options
if available to avoid users ending up with a non-working GPU
due to
a lacking kernel config.
So etnaviv really wants to have DMA_CMA, however, can deal with some
cases
where it is not available.
Let's introduce WANT_DMA_CMA and use it in most cases where drivers
select CMA/DMA_CMA, or depend on DMA_CMA (in a wrong way via CMA because
of recursive dependency issues).
We'll assume that any driver that selects DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER or
DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER would like to use DMA_CMA if possible.
With this change, distributions can disable CONFIG_CMA or
CONFIG_DMA_CMA, without it silently getting enabled again by random
drivers. Also, we'll now automatically try to enabled both, CONFIG_CMA
and CONFIG_DMA_CMA if they are unspecified and any driver is around that
selects WANT_DMA_CMA -- also implicitly via DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER or
DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER.
For example, if any driver selects WANT_DMA_CMA and we do a
"make olddefconfig":
1. With "# CONFIG_CMA is not set" and no specification of
"CONFIG_DMA_CMA"
-> CONFIG_DMA_CMA won't be part of .config
2. With no specification of CONFIG_CMA or CONFIG_DMA_CMA
Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator (DMA_CMA) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
3. With "# CONFIG_CMA is not set" and "# CONFIG_DMA_CMA is not set"
-> CONFIG_DMA_CMA will be removed from .config
Note: drivers/remoteproc seems to be special; commit c51e882cd711
("remoteproc/davinci: Update Kconfig to depend on DMA_CMA") explains
that
there is a real dependency to DMA_CMA for it to work; leave that
dependency
in place and don't convert it to a soft dependency.
I don't think this dependency is fundamentally different from the others,
though davinci machines tend to have less memory than a lot of the
other machines, so it's more likely to fail without CMA.
I was also unsure - and Lucas had similar thoughts. If you want, I can
send a v4 also taking care of this.
TBH I think it should all just be removed. DMA_CMA is effectively an
internal feature of the DMA API, and drivers which simply use the DMA
API shouldn't really be trying to assume *how* things might be allocated
at runtime - CMA is hardly the only way. Platform-level assumptions
about the presence or not of IOMMUs, memory carveouts, etc., and whether
it even matters - e.g. a device with a tiny LCD may only need display
buffers which still fit in a regular MAX_ORDER allocation - could go in
platform-specific configs, but I really don't think they belong at the
generic subsystem level.
We already have various examples like I2S drivers that won't even probe
without a dmaengine provider being present, or host controller drivers
which are useless without their corresponding phy driver (and I'm
guessing you can probably also do higher-level things like include the
block layer but omit all filesystem drivers). I don't believe it's
Kconfig's job to try to guess whether a given configuration is *useful*,
only to enforce that's it's valid to build.
Robin.
