From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: arnd@kernel.org, sven@svenpeter.dev, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
will@kernel.org, marcan@marcan.st, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, maz@kernel.org,
mohamed.mediouni@caramail.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, stan@corellium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:33:25 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1bccac6b36d4662@bloch.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210323205346.GA1283560@robh.at.kernel.org> (message from Rob Herring on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:53:46 -0600)
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:53:46 -0600
> From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 05:00:50PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:19:33 +0000
> > > From: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After Hector's initial work [1] to bring up Linux on Apple's M1 it's time to
> > > bring up more devices. Most peripherals connected to the SoC are behind a iommu
> > > which Apple calls "Device Address Resolution Table", or DART for short [2].
> > > Unfortunately, it only shares the name with PowerPC's DART.
> > > Configuring this iommu is mandatory if these peripherals require DMA access.
> > >
> > > This patchset implements initial support for this iommu. The hardware itself
> > > uses a pagetable format that's very similar to the one already implement in
> > > io-pgtable.c. There are some minor modifications, namely some details of the
> > > PTE format and that there are always three pagetable levels, which I've
> > > implement as a new format variant.
> > >
> > > I have mainly tested this with the USB controller in device mode which is
> > > compatible with Linux's dwc3 driver. Some custom PHY initialization (which is
> > > not yet ready or fully understood) is required though to bring up the ports,
> > > see e.g. my patches to our m1n1 bootloader [3,4]. If you want to test the same
> > > setup you will probably need that branch for now and add the nodes from
> > > the DT binding specification example to your device tree.
> > >
> > > Even though each DART instances could support up to 16 devices usually only
> > > a single device is actually connected. Different devices generally just use
> > > an entirely separate DART instance with a seperate MMIO range, IRQ, etc.
> > >
> > > I have just noticed today though that at least the USB DWC3 controller in host
> > > mode uses *two* darts at the same time. I'm not sure yet which parts seem to
> > > require which DART instance.
> > >
> > > This means that we might need to support devices attached to two iommus
> > > simultaneously and just create the same iova mappings. Currently this only
> > > seems to be required for USB according to Apple's Device Tree.
> > >
> > > I see two options for this and would like to get feedback before
> > > I implement either one:
> > >
> > > 1) Change #iommu-cells = <1>; to #iommu-cells = <2>; and use the first cell
> > > to identify the DART and the second one to identify the master.
> > > The DART DT node would then also take two register ranges that would
> > > correspond to the two DARTs. Both instances use the same IRQ and the
> > > same clocks according to Apple's device tree and my experiments.
> > > This would keep a single device node and the DART driver would then
> > > simply map iovas in both DARTs if required.
> > >
> > > 2) Keep #iommu-cells as-is but support
> > > iommus = <&usb_dart1a 1>, <&usb_dart1b 0>;
> > > instead.
> > > This would then require two devices nodes for the two DART instances and
> > > some housekeeping in the DART driver to support mapping iovas in both
> > > DARTs.
> > > I believe omap-iommu.c supports this setup but I will have to read
> > > more code to understand the details there and figure out how to implement
> > > this in a sane way.
> > >
> > > I currently prefer the first option but I don't understand enough details of
> > > the iommu system to actually make an informed decision.
>
> Please don't mix what does the h/w look like and what's easy to
> implement in Linux's IOMMU subsytem. It's pretty clear (at least
> from the description here) that option 2 reflects the h/w.
Apple does represent these as a single node in their device tree. The
two instances share an interrupt and share power/clock gating. So
they seem to be part of a single hardware block.
> > > I'm obviously also open to more options :-)
> >
> > Hi Sven,
> >
> > I don't think the first option is going to work for PCIe. PCIe
> > devices will have to use "iommu-map" properties to map PCI devices to
> > the right iommu, and the currently implementation seems to assume that
> > #iommu-cells = <1>. The devictree binding[1] doesn't explicitly state
> > that it relies on #iommu-cells = <1>, but it isn't clear how the
> > rid-base to iommu-base mapping mechanism would work when that isn't
> > the case.
> >
> > Now the PCIe DARTs are simpler and seem to have only one "instance"
> > per DART. So if we keep #iommu-cells = <1> for those, you'd still be
> > fine using the first approach.
> >
> > As I mentioned before, not all DARTs support the full 32-bit aperture.
> > In particular the PCIe DARTs support a smaller address-space. It is
> > not clear whether this is a restriction of the PCIe host controller or
> > the DART, but the Apple Device Tree has "vm-base" and "vm-size"
> > properties that encode the base address and size of the aperture.
> > These single-cell properties which is probably why for the USB DARTs
> > only "vm-base" is given; since "vm-base" is 0, a 32-bit number
> > wouldn't be able to encode the full aperture size. We could make them
> > 64-bit numbers in the Linux device tree though and always be explicit
> > about the size. Older Sun SPARC machines used a single "virtual-dma"
> > property to encode the aperture. We could do someting similar. You
> > would use this property to initialize domain->geometry.aperture_start
> > and domain->geometry.aperture_end in diff 3/3 of this series.
>
> 'dma-ranges' is what should be used here.
>
> Rob
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-20 15:19 [PATCH 0/3] Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-20 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] iommu: io-pgtable: add DART pagetable format Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-24 16:37 ` Robin Murphy
2021-03-25 20:47 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-20 15:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: iommu: add DART iommu bindings Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-22 0:15 ` Rob Herring
2021-03-22 18:16 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-21 16:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver Mark Kettenis
2021-03-21 17:22 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-21 18:35 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-22 22:17 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-23 20:00 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-23 21:03 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-21 17:28 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-23 20:53 ` Rob Herring
2021-03-23 22:33 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2021-03-25 7:53 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-25 11:50 ` Robin Murphy
2021-03-25 20:49 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-27 15:33 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-25 21:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-26 15:59 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-26 16:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-26 16:10 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-26 16:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-26 17:06 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-26 17:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-26 17:34 ` Robin Murphy
2021-03-26 17:51 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-26 19:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-26 21:16 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-27 15:30 ` Sven Peter via iommu
2021-03-26 20:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-26 21:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-03-24 15:29 ` Robin Murphy
2021-03-25 7:58 ` Sven Peter via iommu
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