[PATCH 0/4] Retrieve information about DDR from SMEM

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 12:03:03PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 4/11/25 11:57 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 at 12:49, Konrad Dybcio
> > <konrad.dybcio at oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4/9/25 5:49 PM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> >>> On 4/9/25 5:44 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> >>>> On 09/04/2025 17:47, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> >>>>> SMEM allows the OS to retrieve information about the DDR memory.
> >>>>> Among that information, is a semi-magic value called 'HBB', or Highest
> >>>>> Bank address Bit, which multimedia drivers (for hardware like Adreno
> >>>>> and MDSS) must retrieve in order to program the IP blocks correctly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This series introduces an API to retrieve that value, uses it in the
> >>>>> aforementioned programming sequences and exposes available DDR
> >>>>> frequencies in debugfs (to e.g. pass to aoss_qmp debugfs). More
> >>>>> information can be exposed in the future, as needed.
> >>>>
> >>>> I know that for some platforms HBB differs between GPU and DPU (as it's being programmed currently). Is there a way to check, which values are we going to program:
> >>>>
> >>>> - SM6115, SM6350, SM6375 (13 vs 14)
> >>
> >> SM6350 has INFO_V3
> >> SM6375 has INFO_V3_WITH_14_FREQS
> > 
> > I'm not completely sure what you mean here. I pointed out that these
> > platforms disagreed upon the HBB value between the DPU/msm_mdss.c and
> > a6xx_gpu.c.
> > In some cases (a610/SM6115 and a619/SM6350) that was intentional to
> > fix screen corruption issues. I don't remember if it was the case for
> > QCM2290 or not.
> 
> As I said below, I couldn't get a good answer yet, as the magic value
> is not provided explicitly and I'll hopefully be able to derive it from
> the available data

I see...
Is this data even supposed to be poked into? The foo_WITH_bar types
doesn't sound like a very stable API.

> 
> Konrad
> 
> > 
> >>
> >>>> - SC8180X (15 vs 16)
> >>
> >> So I overlooked the fact that DDR info v3 (e.g. on 8180) doesn't provide
> >> the HBB value.. Need to add some more sanity checks there.
> >>
> >> Maybe I can think up some fallback logic based on the DDR type reported.
> >>
> >>>> - QCM2290 (14 vs 15)
> >>
> >> I don't have one on hand, could you please give it a go on your RB1?
> >> I would assume both it and SM6115 also provide v3 though..
> >>
> >> Konrad
> > 
> > 
> > 

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With best wishes
Dmitry