[PATCH v5] drm: Use USB controller's DMA mask when importing dmabufs
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Feb 26 10:28:47 UTC 2021
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:26:47AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> USB devices cannot perform DMA and hence have no dma_mask set in their
> device structure. Therefore importing dmabuf into a USB-based driver
> fails, which breaks joining and mirroring of display in X11.
>
> For USB devices, pick the associated USB controller as attachment device.
> This allows the DRM import helpers to perform the DMA setup. If the DMA
> controller does not support DMA transfers, we're out of luck and cannot
> import. Our current USB-based DRM drivers don't use DMA, so the actual
> DMA device is not important.
>
> Drivers should use DRM_GEM_SHMEM_DROVER_OPS_USB to initialize their
> instance of struct drm_driver.
>
> Tested by joining/mirroring displays of udl and radeon un der Gnome/X11.
>
> v5:
> * provide a helper for USB interfaces (Alan)
> * add FIXME item to documentation and TODO list (Daniel)
> v4:
> * implement workaround with USB helper functions (Greg)
> * use struct usb_device->bus->sysdev as DMA device (Takashi)
> v3:
> * drop gem_create_object
> * use DMA mask of USB controller, if any (Daniel, Christian, Noralf)
> v2:
> * move fix to importer side (Christian, Daniel)
> * update SHMEM and CMA helpers for new PRIME callbacks
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Fixes: 6eb0233ec2d0 ("usb: don't inherity DMA properties for USB devices")
> Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+
> ---
> Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 15 ++++++++++
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/gm12u320.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/usb/core/usb.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h | 16 +++++++++++
> include/drm/drm_prime.h | 5 ++++
> include/linux/usb.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++
> 8 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> index f872d3d33218..c185e0a2951e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> @@ -617,6 +617,21 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter
>
> Level: Intermediate
>
> +Remove automatic page mapping from dma-buf importing
> +----------------------------------------------------
> +
> +When importing dma-bufs, the dma-buf and PRIME frameworks automatically map
> +imported pages into the importer's DMA area. This is a problem for USB devices,
> +which do not support DMA operations. By default, importing fails for USB
> +devices. USB-based drivers work around this problem by employing
> +drm_gem_prime_import_usb(). To fix the issue, automatic page mappings should
> +be removed from the buffer-sharing code.
> +
> +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>, Daniel Vetter
> +
> +Level: Advanced
> +
> +
> Better Testing
> ==============
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> index 2a54f86856af..59013bb1cd4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
> #include <linux/export.h>
> #include <linux/dma-buf.h>
> #include <linux/rbtree.h>
> +#include <linux/usb.h>
>
> #include <drm/drm.h>
> #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
> @@ -1055,3 +1056,47 @@ void drm_prime_gem_destroy(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct sg_table *sg)
> dma_buf_put(dma_buf);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_prime_gem_destroy);
> +
> +/**
> + * drm_gem_prime_import_usb - helper library implementation of the import callback for USB devices
> + * @dev: drm_device to import into
> + * @dma_buf: dma-buf object to import
> + *
> + * This is an implementation of drm_gem_prime_import() for USB-based devices.
> + * USB devices cannot perform DMA directly. This function selects the USB host
> + * controller as DMA device instead. Drivers can use this as their
> + * &drm_driver.gem_prime_import implementation.
> + *
> + * See also drm_gem_prime_import().
> + *
> + * FIXME: The dma-buf framework expects to map the exported pages into
> + * the importer's DMA area. USB devices don't support DMA, and
> + * importing would fail. Foir the time being, this function provides
> + * a workaround by using the USB controller's DMA area. The real
> + * solution is to remove page-mapping operations from the dma-buf
> + * framework.
> + *
> + * Returns: A GEM object on success, or a pointer-encoder errno value otherwise.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USB
> +struct drm_gem_object *drm_gem_prime_import_usb(struct drm_device *dev,
> + struct dma_buf *dma_buf)
> +{
> + struct device *dmadev;
> + struct drm_gem_object *obj;
> +
> + if (!dev_is_usb(dev->dev))
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
> + dmadev = usb_intf_get_dma_device(to_usb_interface(dev->dev));
> + if (drm_WARN_ONCE(dev, !dmadev, "buffer sharing not supported"))
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
> + obj = drm_gem_prime_import_dev(dev, dma_buf, dmadev);
> +
> + put_device(dmadev);
> +
> + return obj;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_prime_import_usb);
> +#endif
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/gm12u320.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/gm12u320.c
> index 0b4f4f2af1ef..99e7bd36a220 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/gm12u320.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/gm12u320.c
> @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ static const struct drm_driver gm12u320_drm_driver = {
> .minor = DRIVER_MINOR,
>
> .fops = &gm12u320_fops,
> - DRM_GEM_SHMEM_DRIVER_OPS,
> + DRM_GEM_SHMEM_DRIVER_OPS_USB,
> };
>
> static const struct drm_mode_config_funcs gm12u320_mode_config_funcs = {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c
> index 9269092697d8..2db483b2b199 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static const struct drm_driver driver = {
>
> /* GEM hooks */
> .fops = &udl_driver_fops,
> - DRM_GEM_SHMEM_DRIVER_OPS,
> + DRM_GEM_SHMEM_DRIVER_OPS_USB,
>
> .name = DRIVER_NAME,
> .desc = DRIVER_DESC,
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> index 8f07b0516100..5e07921e87ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> @@ -748,6 +748,37 @@ void usb_put_intf(struct usb_interface *intf)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_put_intf);
>
> +/**
> + * usb_get_dma_device - acquire a reference on the usb device's DMA endpoint
> + * @udev: usb device
> + *
> + * While a USB device cannot perform DMA operations by itself, many USB
> + * controllers can. A call to usb_get_dma_device() returns the DMA endpoint
> + * for the given USB device, if any. The returned device structure should be
> + * released with put_device().
"must be" released.
Same for the other documentation in here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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