[RFC PATCH 2/2] drm/ttm: downgrade cached to write_combined when snooping not available

[Christian König]

Am 29.06.24 um 22:51 schrieb Icenowy Zheng:
>
> 于 2024年6月30日 GMT+08:00 03:57:47，Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang at flygoat.com> 写道：
>>
>> 在2024年6月29日六月 上午6:22，Icenowy Zheng写道：
>> [...]
>>> @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ pgprot_t ttm_io_prot(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>> struct ttm_resource *res,
>>>   		caching = res->bus.caching;
>>>   	}
>>>
>>> +	/* Downgrade cached mapping for non-snooping devices */
>>> +	if (!bo->bdev->dma_coherent && caching == ttm_cached)
>>> +		caching = ttm_write_combined;
>> Hi Icenowy,
>>
>> Thanks for your patch! You saved many non-coh PCIe host implementations a day!.

Ah, wait a second.

Such a thing as non-coherent PCIe implementation doesn't exist. The PCIe 
specification makes it mandatory for memory access to be cache coherent.

There are a bunch of non-compliant PCIe implementations which have 
broken cache coherency, but those explicitly violate the specification 
and because of that are not supported.

Regards,
Christian.

>>
>> Unfortunately I don't think we can safely ttm_cached to ttm_write_comnined, we've
>> had enough drama with write combine behaviour on all different platforms.
>>
>> See drm_arch_can_wc_memory in drm_cache.h.
>>
> Yes this really sounds like an issue.
>
> Maybe the behavior of ttm_write_combined should furtherly be decided
> by drm_arch_can_wc_memory() in case of quirks?
>
>> Thanks
>>
>>> +
>>>   	return ttm_prot_from_caching(caching, tmp);
>>>   }
>>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_io_prot);
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>>> index 7b00ddf0ce49f..3335df45fba5e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>>> @@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ static void ttm_tt_init_fields(struct ttm_tt *ttm,
>>>   			       enum ttm_caching caching,
>>>   			       unsigned long extra_pages)
>>>   {
>>> +	/* Downgrade cached mapping for non-snooping devices */
>>> +	if (!bo->bdev->dma_coherent && caching == ttm_cached)
>>> +		caching = ttm_write_combined;
>>> +
>>>   	ttm->num_pages = (PAGE_ALIGN(bo->base.size) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + extra_pages;
>>>   	ttm->page_flags = page_flags;
>>>   	ttm->dma_address = NULL;
>>> diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_caching.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_caching.h
>>> index a18f43e93abab..f92d7911f50e4 100644
>>> --- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_caching.h
>>> +++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_caching.h
>>> @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ enum ttm_caching {
>>>
>>>   	/**
>>>   	 * @ttm_cached: Fully cached like normal system memory, requires that
>>> -	 * devices snoop the CPU cache on accesses.
>>> +	 * devices snoop the CPU cache on accesses. Downgraded to
>>> +	 * ttm_write_combined when the snooping capaiblity is missing.
>>>   	 */
>>>   	ttm_cached
>>>   };
>>> -- 
>>> 2.45.2