[PATCH 2/5] drm/tegra: vic: Load firmware on demand

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 09:39:48 UTC 2019


From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>

Loading the firmware requires an allocation of IOVA space to make sure
that the VIC's Falcon microcontroller can read the firmware if address
translation via the SMMU is enabled.

However, the allocation currently happens at a time where the geometry
of an IOMMU domain may not have been initialized yet. This happens for
example on Tegra186 and later where an ARM SMMU is used. Domains which
are created by the ARM SMMU driver postpone the geometry setup until a
device is attached to the domain. This is because IOMMU domains aren't
attached to a specific IOMMU instance at allocation time and hence the
input address space, which defines the geometry, is not known yet.

Work around this by postponing the firmware load until it is needed at
the time where a channel is opened to the VIC. At this time the shared
IOMMU domain's geometry has been properly initialized.

As a byproduct this allows the Tegra DRM to be created in the absence
of VIC firmware, since the VIC initialization no longer fails if the
firmware can't be found.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c
index d47983deb1cf..afbdc33f49bc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c
@@ -181,13 +181,6 @@ static int vic_init(struct host1x_client *client)
 		vic->domain = tegra->domain;
 	}
 
-	if (!vic->falcon.data) {
-		vic->falcon.data = tegra;
-		err = falcon_load_firmware(&vic->falcon);
-		if (err < 0)
-			goto detach;
-	}
-
 	vic->channel = host1x_channel_request(client->dev);
 	if (!vic->channel) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
@@ -256,6 +249,16 @@ static int vic_open_channel(struct tegra_drm_client *client,
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
+	if (!vic->falcon.data) {
+		vic->falcon.data = client->drm;
+
+		err = falcon_load_firmware(&vic->falcon);
+		if (err < 0) {
+			pm_runtime_put(vic->dev);
+			return err;
+		}
+	}
+
 	err = vic_boot(vic);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		pm_runtime_put(vic->dev);
-- 
2.19.1



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