On 11/14/20 2:39 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:58 AM Jonathan Marek <jonat...@marek.ca> wrote:
On 11/14/20 1:46 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 8:24 AM Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:17:12AM -0500, Jonathan Marek wrote:
+void msm_gem_sync_cache(struct drm_gem_object *obj, uint32_t flags,
+ size_t range_start, size_t range_end)
+{
+ struct msm_gem_object *msm_obj = to_msm_bo(obj);
+ struct device *dev = msm_obj->base.dev->dev;
+
+ /* exit early if get_pages() hasn't been called yet */
+ if (!msm_obj->pages)
+ return;
+
+ /* TODO: sync only the specified range */
+
+ if (flags & MSM_GEM_SYNC_FOR_DEVICE) {
+ dma_sync_sg_for_device(dev, msm_obj->sgt->sgl,
+ msm_obj->sgt->nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ }
+
+ if (flags & MSM_GEM_SYNC_FOR_CPU) {
+ dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(dev, msm_obj->sgt->sgl,
+ msm_obj->sgt->nents, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ }
Splitting this helper from the only caller is rather strange, epecially
with the two unused arguments. And I think the way this is specified
to take a range, but ignoring it is actively dangerous. User space will
rely on it syncing everything sooner or later and then you are stuck.
So just define a sync all primitive for now, and if you really need a
range sync and have actually implemented it add a new ioctl for that.
We do already have a split of ioctl "layer" which enforces valid ioctl
params, etc, and gem (or other) module code which is called by the
ioctl func. So I think it is fine to keep this split here. (Also, I
think at some point there will be a uring type of ioctl alternative
which would re-use the same gem func.)
But I do agree that the range should be respected or added later..
drm_ioctl() dispatch is well prepared for extending ioctls.
And I assume there should be some validation that the range is aligned
to cache-line? Or can we flush a partial cache line?
The range is intended to be "sync at least this range", so that
userspace doesn't have to worry about details like that.
I don't think userspace can *not* worry about details like that.
Consider a case where the cpu and gpu are simultaneously accessing
different parts of a buffer (for ex, sub-allocation). There needs to
be cache-line separation between the two.
Right.. and it also seems like we can't get away with just
flushing/invalidating the whole thing.
qcom's vulkan driver has nonCoherentAtomSize=1, and it looks like
dma_sync_single_for_cpu() does deal in some way with the partial cache
line case, although I'm not sure that means we can have a
nonCoherentAtomSize=1.
BR,
-R