[Nouveau] [PATCH] gem: allow user-space to specify an object should be coherent

[Alexandre Courbot]

User-space use mappable BOs notably for fences, and expects that a
value update by the GPU will be immediatly visible through the
user-space mapping.

ARM has a property that may prevent this from happening though: memory
can be mapped multiple times only if the different mappings share the
same caching properties. However all the lowmem memory is already
identity-mapped into the kernel with cache enabled, so when user-space
requests an uncached mapping, we actually get an "undefined caching
policy" one and this has strange side-effects described on Freedesktop
bug 86690.

To prevent this from happening, allow user-space to explicitly specify
which objects should be coherent, and create such objects with the
TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED flag. This will make TTM allocate memory using the
DMA API, which will fix the identify mapping and allow us to safely map
the objects to user-space uncached.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
---
Patches that take advantage of this in Mesa will follow up shortly. I'd
to make sure the new flag is ok first before also adding it to libdrm.

 drm/nouveau/include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h | 1 +
 drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c                  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drm/nouveau/include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h b/drm/nouveau/include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h
index 0d7608dc1a34..5507eead5863 100644
--- a/drm/nouveau/include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h
+++ b/drm/nouveau/include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #define NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_VRAM      (1 << 1)
 #define NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_GART      (1 << 2)
 #define NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_MAPPABLE  (1 << 3)
+#define NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_COHERENT  (1 << 4)
 
 #define NOUVEAU_GEM_TILE_COMP        0x00030000 /* nv50-only */
 #define NOUVEAU_GEM_TILE_LAYOUT_MASK 0x0000ff00
diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
index 7c077fced1d1..0e690bf19fc9 100644
--- a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
+++ b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ nouveau_gem_new(struct drm_device *dev, int size, int align, uint32_t domain,
 	if (!flags || domain & NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU)
 		flags |= TTM_PL_FLAG_SYSTEM;
 
+	if (domain & NOUVEAU_GEM_DOMAIN_COHERENT)
+		flags |= TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED;
+
 	ret = nouveau_bo_new(dev, size, align, flags, tile_mode,
 			     tile_flags, NULL, NULL, pnvbo);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.3.0