Hello,
This patch set fixes miscellaneous issues with the OMAP IOMMU driver, found
when trying to port the OMAP3 ISP away from omap-iovmm to the ARM DMA API. The
biggest issue is fixed by patch 5/5, while the other patches fix smaller
problems that I've noticed when reading the code, without experiencing them at
runtime.
I'd like to take this as an opportunity to discuss OMAP IOMMU integration with
the ARM DMA mapping implementation. The idea is to hide the IOMMU completely
behind the DMA mapping API, making it completely transparent to drivers.
A drivers will only need to allocate memory with dma_alloc_*, and behind the
scene the ARM DMA mapping implementation will find out that the device is
behind an IOMMU and will map the buffers through the IOMMU, returning an I/O
VA address to the driver. No direct call to the OMAP IOMMU driver or to the
IOMMU core should be necessary anymore.
To use the IOMMU the ARM DMA implementation requires a VA mapping to be
created with a call to arm_iommu_create_mapping() and to then be attached to
the device with arm_iommu_attach_device(). This is currently not performed by
the OMAP IOMMU driver, I have thus added that code to the OMAP3 ISP driver for
now. I believe this to still be an improvement compared to the current
situation, as it allows getting rid of custom memory allocation code in the
OMAP3 ISP driver and custom I/O VA space management in omap-iovmm. However,
that code should ideally be removed from the driver. The question is, where
should it be moved to ?
One possible solution would be to add the code to the OMAP IOMMU driver.
However, this would require all OMAP IOMMU users to be converted to the ARM
DMA API. I assume there would be issues that I don't foresee though.
I'm not even sure whether the OMAP IOMMU driver would be the best place to put
that code. Ideally VA spaces should be created by the platform somehow, and
mapping of devices to IOMMUs should be handled by the IOMMU core instead of
the IOMMU drivers. We're not there yet, and the path might not be
straightforward, hence this attempt to start a constructive discussion.
A second completely unrelated problem that I'd like to get feedback on is the
suspend/resume support in the OMAP IOMMU driver, or rather the lack thereof.
The driver exports omap_iommu_save_ctx() and omap_iommu_restore_ctx()
functions and expects the IOMMU users to call them directly. This is really
hackish to say the least. A proper suspend/resume implementation shouldn't be
difficult to implement, and I'm wondering whether the lack of proper power
management support comes from historical reasons only, or if there are
problems I might not have considered.
Last but not least, the patches are available at
git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/media.git omap3isp/dma
along with a patch series that ports the OMAP3 ISP driver to the DMA API. I
will submit that one for review once the IOMMU patches get accepted and after
fixing a couple of remaining bugs (I'm aware that I have broken userspace
PFNMAP buffers).
Laurent Pinchart (5):
iommu/omap: Use the cache cleaning API
iommu/omap: Fix 'no page for' debug message in flush_iotlb_page()
iommu/omap: Flush the TLB only after updating translation table
entries
iommu/omap: Remove comment about supporting single page mappings only
iommu/omap: Fix map protection value handling
drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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