From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>, Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>,
Florian Fanelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, mbrugger@suse.com,
phil@raspberrypi.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: bcm2711: fix soc's node dma-ranges
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:08:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <711470d3-e683-69d4-8f4e-791a76faab29@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191204125633.27696-1-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
On 12/4/19 4:56 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Raspberry Pi's firmware has a feature to select how much memory to
> reserve for its GPU called 'gpu_mem'. The possible values go from 16MB
> to 944MB, with a default of 64MB. This memory resides in the topmost
> part of the lower 1GB memory area and grows bigger expanding towards the
> begging of memory.
>
> It turns out that with low 'gpu_mem' values (16MB and 32MB) the size of
> the memory available to the system in the lower 1GB area can outgrow the
> interconnect's dma-range as its size was selected based on the maximum
> system memory available given the default gpu_mem configuration. This
> makes that memory slice unavailable for DMA. And may cause nasty kernel
> warnings if CMA happens to include it.
>
> Change soc's dma-ranges to really reflect it's HW limitation, which is
> being able to only DMA to the lower 1GB area.
>
> Fixes: 7dbe8c62ceeb ("ARM: dts: Add minimal Raspberry Pi 4 support")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
> ---
>
> NOTE: I'd appreciate if someone from the RPi foundation commented on
> this as it's something that I'll propose to be backported to their tree.
I don't think our additional DTS changes will be merged until -rc1 is
cut, so we have some time to figure this one out. Thanks
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711.dtsi | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711.dtsi
> index 5b61cd915f2b..d6a0e350b7b4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2711.dtsi
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ soc {
> <0x7c000000 0x0 0xfc000000 0x02000000>,
> <0x40000000 0x0 0xff800000 0x00800000>;
> /* Emulate a contiguous 30-bit address range for DMA */
> - dma-ranges = <0xc0000000 0x0 0x00000000 0x3c000000>;
> + dma-ranges = <0xc0000000 0x0 0x00000000 0x40000000>;
>
> /*
> * This node is the provider for the enable-method for
>
--
Florian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 12:56 [PATCH] ARM: dts: bcm2711: fix soc's node dma-ranges Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2019-12-06 0:08 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2019-12-06 10:16 ` Phil Elwell
2019-12-06 18:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-12-09 9:16 ` Phil Elwell
2019-12-09 18:12 ` Florian Fainelli
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