RE: [PATCHv3 00/11] staging tidspbridge: iommu migration

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felipe Contreras [mailto:felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:27 AM
> To: Guzman Lugo, Fernando
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx; 
> ameya.palande@xxxxxxxxx; Menon, Nishanth; 
> Hiroshi.DOYU@xxxxxxxxx; ohad@xxxxxxxxxx; 
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx; 
> linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/11] staging tidspbridge: iommu migration
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando 
> <fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando 
> >> <fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Fernando Guzman Lugo 
> >> >> <x0095840@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> > This set of patches remove the dspbridge custom mmu
> >> >> implementation and
> >> >> > use iommu module instead.
> >> >>
> >> >> I have tried this, it works for simple tests, but not real
> >> use-cases.
> >> >> I applied all your iommu patches. How did you test this?
> >> >
> >> > Have you applied:
> >> >
> >> > - "scatterlist: define SG chain for arm architecture"
> >> > - "iovmm: replace __iounmap with omap_iounmap"
> >> > - "iovmm: add superpages support to fixed da address"
> >> > - "iovmm: IVA2 MMU range is from 0x11000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF"
> >> > - "iovmm: no gap checking for fixed address"
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> > Also make sure your baseline have this patch:
> >> >
> >> > - "omap:iommu-load cam register before flushing the entry"
> >>
> >> Huh? That's not even in v2.6.36-rc7, in which baseline is this 
> >> supposed to be in? Anyway, I'll try adding that.
> >
> > That's is in latest Hiroshi's tree and it is really needed, 
> Otherwise 
> > You will have wrong traslations which can cause unexpected behavior.
> 
> Now I applied that, still fails.
> 
> >> > What kind of error are you getting?
> >>
> >> Node allocation failing IIRC.
> >
> > Is it falling to map the Heap??
> > I mean you see this trace?
> >
> >        if (status)
> >                pr_err("%s: Failed to map memory for Heap: 0x%x\n",
> >                       __func__, status);
> >
> > Otherwise, I don't see how that fail is related with iommu changes.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> >> > I don't have a complete framework to test MM testcases at
> >> this moment
> >>
> >> See:
> >> http://felipec.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/my-arm-development-notes/
> >>
> >> I even prepared a tarball so you just need to extract it on your 
> >> device. It's not difficult to test this with GStreamer, 
> and I don't 
> >> see how you can be confident that they indeed work without testing 
> >> some real use-cases. Anyway, I'll try that missing patch.
> >
> > Most of time real use-cases are not so stressing like 
> testcases We can 
> > make to test under real stress in order to find out corner cases.
> > However when I test it was pretty stable and just few erros because 
> > staging Does not have latest mailbox patches. Also I test 
> in a .35 version of staging.
> > So now I am using a branch with all new patches and I will 
> recheck and 
> > test Again any possible issue. Also I will look at your 
> gstreamer fail too.
> 
> Well, in my experience it's the other way around, the stress 
> test-cases don't catch the errors that happen on real 
> use-case scenarios, no matter how extensive they are. This is 
> a good example.

I am facing some unstability with the latest bridge merge. I am looing into
That once it is stable I wil check you testcase too to confirm everything is 
Working fine.


Thanks,
Fernando.


> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Felipe Contreras
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