Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/vgem: use normal cached mmap'ings

[Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:09 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 09:42:15AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> >
> > Since there is no real device associated with vgem, it is impossible to
> > end up with appropriate dev->dma_ops, meaning that we have no way to
> > invalidate the shmem pages allocated by vgem.  So, at least on platforms
> > without drm_cflush_pages(), we end up with corruption when cache lines
> > from previous usage of vgem bo pages get evicted to memory.
> >
> > The only sane option is to use cached mappings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > ---
> > Possibly we could dma_sync_*_for_{device,cpu}() on dmabuf attach/detach,
> > although the ->gem_prime_{pin,unpin}() API isn't quite ideal for that as
> > it is.  And that doesn't really help for drivers that don't attach/
> > detach for each use.
> >
> > But AFAICT vgem is mainly used for dmabuf testing, so maybe we don't
> > need to care too much about use of cached mmap'ings.
>
> Isn't this going to horribly break testing buffer sharing with SoC
> devices? I'd assume they all expect writecombining mode to make sure stuff
> is coherent?
>
> Also could we get away with this by simply extending drm_cflush_pages for
> those arm platforms where we do have a clflush instruction? Yes I know
> that'll get people screaming, I'll shrug :-)
>
> If all we need patch 1/2 for is this vgem patch then the auditing needed for
> patch 1 doesn't look appealing ...

I think we should go w/ the simpler approach in that keeps WC (but
kinda relies on an implementation detail of dma-mapping, ie.
dev->dma_ops==NULL => dma_direct

IMO the first patch in this series is probably a thing we should try
to do somehow, it is a bit rude that core helpers are forcing WC.  But
not sure about how to land that smoothly.  Perhaps something worth
adding to the TODO list at any rate.

BR,
-R

> -Daniel
>
> >
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c | 7 ++-----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> > index 11a8f99ba18c..ccf0c3fbd586 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
> > @@ -259,9 +259,6 @@ static int vgem_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> >       if (ret)
> >               return ret;
> >
> > -     /* Keep the WC mmaping set by drm_gem_mmap() but our pages
> > -      * are ordinary and not special.
> > -      */
> >       vma->vm_flags = flags | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> > @@ -382,7 +379,7 @@ static void *vgem_prime_vmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> >       if (IS_ERR(pages))
> >               return NULL;
> >
> > -     return vmap(pages, n_pages, 0, pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL));
> > +     return vmap(pages, n_pages, 0, PAGE_KERNEL);
> >  }
> >
> >  static void vgem_prime_vunmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, void *vaddr)
> > @@ -411,7 +408,7 @@ static int vgem_prime_mmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj,
> >       fput(vma->vm_file);
> >       vma->vm_file = get_file(obj->filp);
> >       vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
> > -     vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags));
> > +     vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
> >
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.21.0
> >
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch