Re: [PATCHv5 06/14] remoteproc/omap: Initialize and assign reserved memory node

["Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>]

On 1/30/20 4:39 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
> On 1/30/20 3:19 PM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 1/30/20 3:39 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
>>> On 1/30/20 2:22 PM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>>> On 1/30/20 2:55 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
>>>>> On 1/30/20 1:42 PM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/01/2020 21:20, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/30/20 2:18 PM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 30/01/2020 20:11, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 1/16/20 8:53 AM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> From: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The reserved memory nodes are not assigned to platform devices by
>>>>>>>>>> default in the driver core to avoid the lookup for every platform
>>>>>>>>>> device and incur a penalty as the real users are expected to be
>>>>>>>>>> only a few devices.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> OMAP remoteproc devices fall into the above category and the OMAP
>>>>>>>>>> remoteproc driver _requires_ specific CMA pools to be assigned
>>>>>>>>>> for each device at the moment to align on the location of the
>>>>>>>>>> vrings and vring buffers in the RTOS-side firmware images. So,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Same comment as before, this is a firmware issue for only some
>>>>>>>>> firmwares
>>>>>>>>> that do not handle being assigned vring locations correctly and instead
>>>>>>>>> hard-code them.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for this statement, this can do with some updating. Post 4.20,
>>>>> because of the lazy allocation scheme used for carveouts including the
>>>>> vrings, the resource tables now have to use FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY and will
>>>>> have to wait for the vdev synchronization to happen.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I believe we discussed this topic in length in previous version but
>>>>>>>> there was no conclusion on it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The commit desc might be a bit misleading, we are not actually forced to
>>>>>>>> use specific CMA buffers, as we use IOMMU to map these to device
>>>>>>>> addresses. For example IPU1/IPU2 use internally exact same memory
>>>>>>>> addresses, iommu is used to map these to specific CMA buffer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> CMA buffers are mostly used so that we get aligned large chunk of memory
>>>>>>>> which can be mapped properly with the limited IOMMU OMAP family of chips
>>>>>>>> have. Not sure if there is any sane way to get this done in any other
>>>>>>>> manner.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why not use the default CMA area?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think using default CMA area getting the actual memory block is not
>>>>>> guaranteed and might fail. There are other users for the memory, and it
>>>>>> might get fragmented at the very late phase we are grabbing the memory
>>>>>> (omap remoteproc driver probe time.) Some chunks we need are pretty large.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe I could experiment with this a bit though and see, or Suman
>>>>>> could maybe provide feedback why this was designed initially like this
>>>>>> and why this would not be a good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have given some explanation on this on v4 as well, but if it is not
>>>>> clear, there are restrictions with using default CMA. Default CMA has
>>>>> switched to be assigned from the top of the memory (higher addresses,
>>>>> since 3.18 IIRC), and the MMUs on IPUs and DSPs can only address
>>>>> 32-bits. So, we cannot blindly use the default CMA pool, and this will
>>>>> definitely not work on boards > 2 GB RAM. And, if you want to add in any
>>>>> firewall capability, then specific physical addresses becomes mandatory.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you need 32bit range allocations then
>>>> dma_set_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
>>>>
>>>> I'm not saying don't have support for carveouts, just make them
>>>> optional, keystone_remoteproc.c does this:
>>>>
>>>> if (of_reserved_mem_device_init(dev))
>>>> 	dev_warn(dev, "device does not have specific CMA pool\n");
>>>>
>>>> There doesn't even needs to be a warning but that is up to you.
>>>
>>> It is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. K2s do not have MMUs,
>>> and most of our firmware images on K2 are actually running out of the
>>> DSP internal memory.
>>>
>>
>>
>> So again we circle back to it being a firmware issue, if K2 can get away
>> without needing carveouts and it doesn't even have an MMU then certainly
>> OMAP/DRA7x class devices can handle it even better given they *do* have
>> an IOMMU. Unless someone is hard-coding the IOMMU configuration.. In
>> which case we are still just hacking around the problem here with
>> mandatory specific address memory carveouts.
> 
> Optional carveouts on OMAP remoteprocs can be an enhancement in the
> future, but at the moment, we won't be able to run use-cases without
> this. And I have already given some of the reasons for the same here and
> on v4.
> 


No reason to be dismissive, my questions are valid.

What "use-cases" are we talking about, I have firmware that doesn't need
specific carved-out addresses. If you have misbehaving firmware that
needs statically carved out memory addresses then you can have carveouts
if you want, but it should be optional. If I don't want to pollute my
system's memory space with a bunch of carveout holes then I shouldn't
have to just because your specific firmware needs them.

Andrew


> regards
> Suman
> 
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>> regards
>>> Suman
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>> Suman
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Tero
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -Tero
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is not a requirement of the remote processor itself and so it
>>>>>>>>> should not fail to probe if a specific memory carveout isn't given.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> use the of_reserved_mem_device_init/release() API appropriately
>>>>>>>>>> to assign the corresponding reserved memory region to the OMAP
>>>>>>>>>> remoteproc device. Note that only one region per device is
>>>>>>>>>> allowed by the framework.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>> v5: no changes
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>    drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>>>>>>>>>>    1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c
>>>>>>>>>> b/drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c
>>>>>>>>>> index 0846839b2c97..194303b860b2 100644
>>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c
>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c
>>>>>>>>>> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/module.h>
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/err.h>
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/of_device.h>
>>>>>>>>>> +#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>>>>>>>>>>    #include <linux/remoteproc.h>
>>>>>>>>>> @@ -480,14 +481,22 @@ static int omap_rproc_probe(struct
>>>>>>>>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>>>>>>        if (ret)
>>>>>>>>>>            goto free_rproc;
>>>>>>>>>>    +    ret = of_reserved_mem_device_init(&pdev->dev);
>>>>>>>>>> +    if (ret) {
>>>>>>>>>> +        dev_err(&pdev->dev, "device does not have specific CMA
>>>>>>>>>> pool\n");
>>>>>>>>>> +        goto free_rproc;
>>>>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>        platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rproc);
>>>>>>>>>>          ret = rproc_add(rproc);
>>>>>>>>>>        if (ret)
>>>>>>>>>> -        goto free_rproc;
>>>>>>>>>> +        goto release_mem;
>>>>>>>>>>          return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>    +release_mem:
>>>>>>>>>> +    of_reserved_mem_device_release(&pdev->dev);
>>>>>>>>>>    free_rproc:
>>>>>>>>>>        rproc_free(rproc);
>>>>>>>>>>        return ret;
>>>>>>>>>> @@ -499,6 +508,7 @@ static int omap_rproc_remove(struct
>>>>>>>>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>>>>>>          rproc_del(rproc);
>>>>>>>>>>        rproc_free(rproc);
>>>>>>>>>> +    of_reserved_mem_device_release(&pdev->dev);
>>>>>>>>>>          return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>    }
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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