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Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Use low_order_gfp_flags for smaller allocations

by Laura Abbott

On 2/11/19 11:09 PM, Jing Xia wrote: > gfp_flags is always set high_order_gfp_flags even if allocations of > order 0 are made.But for smaller allocations, the system should be able > to reclaim some memory. > > Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia(a)unisoc.com> > Reviewed-by: Yuming Han <yuming.han(a)unisoc.com> > Reviewed-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang(a)unisoc.com> > Reviewed-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai(a)unisoc.com> > --- > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > index 0383f75..20f2103 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > @@ -223,10 +223,10 @@ static void ion_system_heap_destroy_pools(struct ion_page_pool **pools) > static int ion_system_heap_create_pools(struct ion_page_pool **pools) > { > int i; > - gfp_t gfp_flags = low_order_gfp_flags; > > for (i = 0; i < NUM_ORDERS; i++) { > struct ion_page_pool *pool; > + gfp_t gfp_flags = low_order_gfp_flags; > > if (orders[i] > 4) > gfp_flags = high_order_gfp_flags; > This was already submitted in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1549004386-38778-1-git-send-email-saberlily.xi… (I'm also very behind on Ion e-mail and need to catch up...) Laura

6 years, 12 months

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] staging: android: ion: fix sys heap pool's gfp_flags

by Dan Carpenter

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 02:59:46PM +0800, Qing Xia wrote: > In the first loop, gfp_flags will be modified to high_order_gfp_flags, > and there will be no chance to change back to low_order_gfp_flags. > > Fixes: e7f63771 ("ION: Sys_heap: Add cached pool to spead up cached buffer alloc") Huh... Presumably you found this bug just by reading the code. I wonder how it affects runtime? regards, dan carpenter

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] staging: android: ion: fix sys heap pool's gfp_flags

by Chen Feng

Thanks. On 2019/2/1 14:59, Qing Xia wrote: > In the first loop, gfp_flags will be modified to high_order_gfp_flags, > and there will be no chance to change back to low_order_gfp_flags. > > Fixes: e7f63771 ("ION: Sys_heap: Add cached pool to spead up cached buffer alloc") > Signed-off-by: Qing Xia <saberlily.xia(a)hisilicon.com> > --- > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > index 0383f75..20f2103 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c > @@ -223,10 +223,10 @@ static void ion_system_heap_destroy_pools(struct ion_page_pool **pools) > static int ion_system_heap_create_pools(struct ion_page_pool **pools) > { > int i; > - gfp_t gfp_flags = low_order_gfp_flags; > > for (i = 0; i < NUM_ORDERS; i++) { > struct ion_page_pool *pool; > + gfp_t gfp_flags = low_order_gfp_flags; > > if (orders[i] > 4) > gfp_flags = high_order_gfp_flags; > -- Cheers, - Feng

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 3/4] dma-buf: add support for mapping with dma mapping attributes

by Liam Mark

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/19 4:12 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:44:10AM -0800, Liam Mark wrote: > >>> The main use case is for allowing clients to pass in > >>> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC in order to skip the default cache maintenance > >>> which happens in dma_buf_map_attachment and dma_buf_unmap_attachment. In > >>> ION the buffers aren't usually accessed from the CPU so this allows > >>> clients to often avoid doing unnecessary cache maintenance. > >> > >> This can't work. The cpu can still easily speculate into this area. > > > > Can you provide more detail on your concern here. > > The use case I am thinking about here is a cached buffer which is accessed > > by a non IO-coherent device (quite a common use case for ION). > > > > Guessing on your concern: > > The speculative access can be an issue if you are going to access the > > buffer from the CPU after the device has written to it, however if you > > know you aren't going to do any CPU access before the buffer is again > > returned to the device then I don't think the speculative access is a > > concern. > > > >> Moreover in general these operations should be cheap if the addresses > >> aren't cached. > >> > > > > I am thinking of use cases with cached buffers here, so CMO isn't cheap. > > > > These buffers are cacheable, not cached, if you haven't written anything > the data wont actually be in cache. That's true > And in the case of speculative cache > filling the lines are marked clean. In either case the only cost is the > little 7 instruction loop calling the clean/invalidate instruction (dc > civac for ARMv8) for the cache-lines. Unless that is the cost you are > trying to avoid? > This is the cost I am trying to avoid and this comes back to our previous discussion. We have a coherent system cache so if you are doing this for every cache line on a large buffer it adds up with this work and the going to the bus. For example I believe 1080P buffers are 8MB, and 4K buffers are even larger. I also still think you would want to solve this properly such that invalidates aren't being done unnecessarily. > In that case if you are mapping and unmapping so much that the little > CMO here is hurting performance then I would argue your usage is broken > and needs to be re-worked a bit. > I am not sure I would say it is broken, the large buffers (example 1080P buffers) are mapped and unmapped on every frame. I don't think there is any clean way to avoid that in a pipelining framework, you could ask clients to keep the buffers dma mapped but there isn't necessarily a good time to tell them to unmap. It would be unfortunate to not consider this something legitimate for usespace to do in a pipelining use case. Requiring devices to stay attached doesn't seem very clean to me as there isn't necessarily a nice place to tell them when to detach. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 3/4] dma-buf: add support for mapping with dma mapping attributes

by Liam Mark

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/19 4:18 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > > > >> On 1/21/19 2:20 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 1/21/19 1:44 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:50:41AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: > >>>>>>>> And who is going to decide which ones to pass? And who documents > >>>>>>>> which ones are safe? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I'd much rather have explicit, well documented dma-buf flags that > >>>>>>>> might get translated to the DMA API flags, which are not error checked, > >>>>>>>> not very well documented and way to easy to get wrong. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'm not sure having flags in dma-buf really solves anything > >>>>>>> given drivers can use the attributes directly with dma_map > >>>>>>> anyway, which is what we're looking to do. The intention > >>>>>>> is for the driver creating the dma_buf attachment to have > >>>>>>> the knowledge of which flags to use. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Well, there are very few flags that you can simply use for all calls of > >>>>>> dma_map*. And given how badly these flags are defined I just don't want > >>>>>> people to add more places where they indirectly use these flags, as > >>>>>> it will be more than enough work to clean up the current mess. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> What flag(s) do you want to pass this way, btw? Maybe that is where > >>>>>> the problem is. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> The main use case is for allowing clients to pass in > >>>>> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC in order to skip the default cache maintenance > >>>>> which happens in dma_buf_map_attachment and dma_buf_unmap_attachment. In > >>>>> ION the buffers aren't usually accessed from the CPU so this allows > >>>>> clients to often avoid doing unnecessary cache maintenance. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> How can a client know that no CPU access has occurred that needs to be > >>>> flushed out? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I have left this to clients, but if they own the buffer they can have the > >>> knowledge as to whether CPU access is needed in that use case (example for > >>> post-processing). > >>> > >>> For example with the previous version of ION we left all decisions of > >>> whether cache maintenance was required up to the client, they would use > >>> the ION cache maintenance IOCTL to force cache maintenance only when it > >>> was required. > >>> In these cases almost all of the access was being done by the device and > >>> in the rare cases CPU access was required clients would initiate the > >>> required cache maintenance before and after the CPU access. > >>> > >> > >> I think we have different definitions of "client", I'm talking about the > >> DMA-BUF client (the importer), that is who can set this flag. It seems > >> you mean the userspace application, which has no control over this flag. > >> > > > > I am also talking about dma-buf clients, I am referring to both the > > userspace and kernel component of the client. For example our Camera ION > > client has both a usersapce and kernel component and they have ION > > buffers, which they control the access to, which may or may not be > > accessed by the CPU in certain uses cases. > > > > I know they often work together, but for this discussion it would be > good to keep kernel clients and usperspace clients separate. There are > three types of actors at play here, userspace clients, kernel clients, > and exporters. > > DMA-BUF only provides the basic sync primitive + mmap directly to > userspace, Well dma-buf does provide dma_buf_kmap/dma_buf_begin_cpu_access which allows the same fucntionality in the kernel, but I don't think that changes your argument. > both operations are fulfilled by the exporter. This patch is > about adding more control to the kernel side clients. The kernel side > clients cannot know what userspace or other kernel side clients have > done with the buffer, *only* the exporter has the whole picture. > > Therefor neither type of client should be deciding if the CPU needs > flushed or not, only the exporter, based on the type of buffer, the > current set attachments, and previous actions (is this first attachment, > CPU get access in-between, etc...) can make this decision. > > You goal seems to be to avoid unneeded CPU side CMOs when a device > detaches and another attaches with no CPU access in-between, right? > That's reasonable to me, but it must be the exporter who keeps track and > skips the CMO. This patch allows the client to tell the exporter the CMO > is not needed and that is not safe. > I agree it would be better have this logic in the exporter, but I just haven't heard an upstreamable way to make that work. But maybe to explore that a bit more. If we consider having CPU access with no devices attached a legitimate use case: The pipelining use case I am thinking of is 1) dev 1 attach, map, access, unmap 2) dev 1 detach 3) (maybe) CPU access 4) dev 2 attach 5) dev 2 map, access 6) ... It would be unfortunate to not consider this something legitimate for userspace to do in a pipelining use case. Requiring devices to stay attached doesn't seem very clean to me as there isn't necessarily a nice place to tell them when to detach. If we considered the above a supported use case I think we could support it in dma-buf (based on past discussions) if we had 2 things #1 if we tracked the state of the buffer (example if it has had a previous cached/uncached write and no following CMO). Then when either the CPU or a device was going to access a buffer it could decide, based on the previous access if any CMO needs to be applied first. #2 we had a non-architecture specific way to apply cache maintenance without a device, so that in step #3 the begin_cpu_acess call could successfully invalidate the buffer. I think #1 is doable since we can tell tell if devices are IO coherent or not and we know the direction of accesses in dma map and begin cpu access. I think we would probably agree that #2 is a problem though, getting the kernel to expose that API seems like a hard argument. Liam Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

7 years

[PATCH 0/4] ION stability and perf changes

by Liam Mark

Some stability changes to improve ION robustness and a perf related change to make it easier for clients to avoid unnecessary cache maintenance, such as when buffers are clean and haven't had any CPU access. Liam Mark (4): staging: android: ion: Support cpu access during dma_buf_detach staging: android: ion: Restrict cache maintenance to dma mapped memory dma-buf: add support for mapping with dma mapping attributes staging: android: ion: Support for mapping with dma mapping attributes drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/dma-buf.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 3/4] dma-buf: add support for mapping with dma mapping attributes

by Liam Mark

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/19 2:20 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > > > >> On 1/21/19 1:44 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:50:41AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: > >>>>>> And who is going to decide which ones to pass? And who documents > >>>>>> which ones are safe? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I'd much rather have explicit, well documented dma-buf flags that > >>>>>> might get translated to the DMA API flags, which are not error checked, > >>>>>> not very well documented and way to easy to get wrong. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm not sure having flags in dma-buf really solves anything > >>>>> given drivers can use the attributes directly with dma_map > >>>>> anyway, which is what we're looking to do. The intention > >>>>> is for the driver creating the dma_buf attachment to have > >>>>> the knowledge of which flags to use. > >>>> > >>>> Well, there are very few flags that you can simply use for all calls of > >>>> dma_map*. And given how badly these flags are defined I just don't want > >>>> people to add more places where they indirectly use these flags, as > >>>> it will be more than enough work to clean up the current mess. > >>>> > >>>> What flag(s) do you want to pass this way, btw? Maybe that is where > >>>> the problem is. > >>>> > >>> > >>> The main use case is for allowing clients to pass in > >>> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC in order to skip the default cache maintenance > >>> which happens in dma_buf_map_attachment and dma_buf_unmap_attachment. In > >>> ION the buffers aren't usually accessed from the CPU so this allows > >>> clients to often avoid doing unnecessary cache maintenance. > >>> > >> > >> How can a client know that no CPU access has occurred that needs to be > >> flushed out? > >> > > > > I have left this to clients, but if they own the buffer they can have the > > knowledge as to whether CPU access is needed in that use case (example for > > post-processing). > > > > For example with the previous version of ION we left all decisions of > > whether cache maintenance was required up to the client, they would use > > the ION cache maintenance IOCTL to force cache maintenance only when it > > was required. > > In these cases almost all of the access was being done by the device and > > in the rare cases CPU access was required clients would initiate the > > required cache maintenance before and after the CPU access. > > > > I think we have different definitions of "client", I'm talking about the > DMA-BUF client (the importer), that is who can set this flag. It seems > you mean the userspace application, which has no control over this flag. > I am also talking about dma-buf clients, I am referring to both the userspace and kernel component of the client. For example our Camera ION client has both a usersapce and kernel component and they have ION buffers, which they control the access to, which may or may not be accessed by the CPU in certain uses cases. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 3/4] dma-buf: add support for mapping with dma mapping attributes

by Liam Mark

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/19 1:44 PM, Liam Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:50:41AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: > >>>> And who is going to decide which ones to pass? And who documents > >>>> which ones are safe? > >>>> > >>>> I'd much rather have explicit, well documented dma-buf flags that > >>>> might get translated to the DMA API flags, which are not error checked, > >>>> not very well documented and way to easy to get wrong. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I'm not sure having flags in dma-buf really solves anything > >>> given drivers can use the attributes directly with dma_map > >>> anyway, which is what we're looking to do. The intention > >>> is for the driver creating the dma_buf attachment to have > >>> the knowledge of which flags to use. > >> > >> Well, there are very few flags that you can simply use for all calls of > >> dma_map*. And given how badly these flags are defined I just don't want > >> people to add more places where they indirectly use these flags, as > >> it will be more than enough work to clean up the current mess. > >> > >> What flag(s) do you want to pass this way, btw? Maybe that is where > >> the problem is. > >> > > > > The main use case is for allowing clients to pass in > > DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC in order to skip the default cache maintenance > > which happens in dma_buf_map_attachment and dma_buf_unmap_attachment. In > > ION the buffers aren't usually accessed from the CPU so this allows > > clients to often avoid doing unnecessary cache maintenance. > > > > How can a client know that no CPU access has occurred that needs to be > flushed out? > I have left this to clients, but if they own the buffer they can have the knowledge as to whether CPU access is needed in that use case (example for post-processing). For example with the previous version of ION we left all decisions of whether cache maintenance was required up to the client, they would use the ION cache maintenance IOCTL to force cache maintenance only when it was required. In these cases almost all of the access was being done by the device and in the rare cases CPU access was required clients would initiate the required cache maintenance before and after the CPU access. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

7 years

[PATCH v4 0/4] locking, drm: Fix ww mutex naming / algorithm inconsistency

by Thomas Hellstrom

This is a small fallout from a work to allow batching WW mutex locks and unlocks. Our Wound-Wait mutexes actually don't use the Wound-Wait algorithm but the Wait-Die algorithm. One could perhaps rename those mutexes tree-wide to "Wait-Die mutexes" or "Deadlock Avoidance mutexes". Another approach suggested here is to implement also the "Wound-Wait" algorithm as a per-WW-class choice, as it has advantages in some cases. See for example http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/554/Syllabus/8-recv+serial/dead… Now Wound-Wait is a preemptive algorithm, and the preemption is implemented using a lazy scheme: If a wounded transaction is about to go to sleep on a contended WW mutex, we return -EDEADLK. That is sufficient for deadlock prevention. Since with WW mutexes we also require the aborted transaction to sleep waiting to lock the WW mutex it was aborted on, this choice also provides a suitable WW mutex to sleep on. If we were to return -EDEADLK on the first WW mutex lock after the transaction was wounded whether the WW mutex was contended or not, the transaction might frequently be restarted without a wait, which is far from optimal. Note also that with the lazy preemption scheme, contrary to Wait-Die there will be no rollbacks on lock contention of locks held by a transaction that has completed its locking sequence. The modeset locks are then changed from Wait-Die to Wound-Wait since the typical locking pattern of those locks very well matches the criterion for a substantial reduction in the number of rollbacks. For reservation objects, the benefit is more unclear at this point and they remain using Wait-Die. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet(a)lwn.net> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo(a)padovan.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst(a)linux.intel.com> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul(a)chromium.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied(a)linux.ie> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave(a)stgolabs.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh(a)joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart(a)linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne(a)nexb.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-doc(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org v2: Updated DEFINE_WW_CLASS() API, minor code- and comment fixes as detailed in each patch. v3: Included cleanup patch from Peter Zijlstra. Documentation fixes and a small correctness fix. v4: Reworked the correctness fix.

7 years

Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] staging: android: ion: add buffer flag update ioctl

by Laura Abbott

On 1/3/19 5:42 PM, Zengtao (B) wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labbott@redhat.com] >> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 6:31 AM >> To: Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng(a)hisilicon.com>; sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>; Arve Hjønnevåg >> <arve(a)android.com>; Todd Kjos <tkjos(a)android.com>; Martijn Coenen >> <maco(a)android.com>; Joel Fernandes <joel(a)joelfernandes.org>; >> devel(a)driverdev.osuosl.org; dri-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org; >> linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org; linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: add buffer flag update ioctl >> >> On 12/23/18 6:47 PM, Zengtao (B) wrote: >>> Hi laura: >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labbott@redhat.com] >>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 4:50 AM >>>> To: Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng(a)hisilicon.com>; >> sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org >>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>; Arve >> Hjønnevåg >>>> <arve(a)android.com>; Todd Kjos <tkjos(a)android.com>; Martijn >> Coenen >>>> <maco(a)android.com>; Joel Fernandes <joel(a)joelfernandes.org>; >>>> devel(a)driverdev.osuosl.org; dri-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org; >>>> linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org; linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org >>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: add buffer flag update >>>> ioctl >>>> >>>> On 12/19/18 5:39 PM, Zengtao (B) wrote: >>>>> Hi laura: >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labbott@redhat.com] >>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 2:10 AM >>>>>> To: Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng(a)hisilicon.com>; >>>> sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org >>>>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>; Arve >>>> Hjønnevåg >>>>>> <arve(a)android.com>; Todd Kjos <tkjos(a)android.com>; Martijn >>>> Coenen >>>>>> <maco(a)android.com>; Joel Fernandes <joel(a)joelfernandes.org>; >>>>>> devel(a)driverdev.osuosl.org; dri-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org; >>>>>> linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org; linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org >>>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: add buffer flag update >>>>>> ioctl >>>>>> >>>>>> On 12/19/18 9:19 AM, Zeng Tao wrote: >>>>>>> In some usecases, the buffer cached attribute is not determined at >>>>>>> allocation time, it's determined just before the real cpu mapping. >>>>>>> And from the memory view of point, a buffer should not have the >>>>>> cached >>>>>>> attribute util is really mapped by the cpu. So in this patch, we >>>>>>> introduced the new ioctl command to target the requirement. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This is racy and error prone. Can you explain more what problem >> you >>>>>> are trying to solve? >>>>> >>>>> My use case is like this: >>>>> 1. There are two process A and B, A takes case of ion buffer >>>>> allocation, >>>> and >>>>> pass the buffer fd to B, then B maps and uses it. >>>>> 2. Process B need to map the buffer with different cached attribute >>>>> for different use case, for example, if the buffer is used for pure >>>>> software algorithm, then we need to map it as cached, otherwise >>>>> non-cached, and B needs to deal with both cases. >>>>> And unfortunately the mmap syscall takes no cached flags and we >>>>> can't decide the cache attribute when we are doing the mmap, so I >>>>> introduce new the ioctl even though I think the solution is not as >> good. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for the explanation, this was about the use case I expected. >>>> I'm pretty sure I had this exact problem once upon a time and we >>>> didn't come up with a solution. I'd still like to get rid of uncached >>>> buffers in general and just use cached buffers (see >>>> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/201 >>>> 8-N >>>> ovember/128842.html) >>>> What's your usecase for uncached buffers? >>> >>> Some buffers are only used by HW, in this case, we tend to use >> uncached buffers. >>> But sometimes the SW need to read few buffer contents for debug >>> purpose and no synchronization is needed. >>> >> >> If this is primarily for debug, that's not really a compelling reason to >> support uncached buffers. It's incredibly difficult to do uncached buffers >> correctly I'd rather spend effort on making the cached use cases work >> better. >> > No, not only for debug, I meant if the buffers are uncached, the SW will only mmap > them for debug or even don't need to mmap them. > So for the two kinds of buffers: > 1. uncached: only the HW need to access it, the SW don't need to mmap it or just for debug. > 2. cached: both the HW and the SW need to access it. > The ION is designed as a generalized memory manager, I think we should cover as many > requirements as we can in the ION design, so I 'd rather that we keep the uncached support. > And I don’t quite understand the difficulty you mentioned to support the uncached buffers, would > you explain a little more about it. > We end up with aliasing problems. Each kernel page still has a cached mapping so it's very difficult to keep the two mappings in sync. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181120164636.jcw7li2uaa3cmwc3@DESKTOP-E1NTVV… This thread does a better job of explaining the problem and the objections to uncached buffers. And if the software never touches the buffer, why does it matter if the buffer is uncached? Laura > Thanks > Zengtao > >> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng(a)hisilicon.com> >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 4 ++++ >>>>>>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 17 >>>> +++++++++++++++++ >>>>>>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h | 1 + >>>>>>> drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 22 >>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>>>> 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c >>>>>>> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c >>>>>>> index a8d3cc4..60bb702 100644 >>>>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c >>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c >>>>>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> union ion_ioctl_arg { >>>>>>> struct ion_allocation_data allocation; >>>>>>> + struct ion_buffer_flag_data update; >>>>>>> struct ion_heap_query query; >>>>>>> }; >>>>>>> >>>>>>> @@ -83,6 +84,9 @@ long ion_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int >>>>>>> cmd, unsigned long arg) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> break; >>>>>>> } >>>>>>> + case ION_IOC_BUFFER_UPDATE: >>>>>>> + ret = ion_buffer_update(data.update.fd, data.update.flags); >>>>>>> + break; >>>>>>> case ION_IOC_HEAP_QUERY: >>>>>>> ret = ion_query_heaps(&data.query); >>>>>>> break; >>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c >>>>>>> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c >>>>>>> index 9907332..f1404dc 100644 >>>>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c >>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c >>>>>>> @@ -436,6 +436,23 @@ int ion_alloc(size_t len, unsigned int >>>>>> heap_id_mask, unsigned int flags) >>>>>>> return fd; >>>>>>> } >>>>>>> >>>>>>> +int ion_buffer_update(unsigned int fd, unsigned int flags) { >>>>>>> + struct dma_buf *dmabuf; >>>>>>> + struct ion_buffer *buffer; >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> + dmabuf = dma_buf_get(fd); >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> + if (!dmabuf) >>>>>>> + return -EINVAL; >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> + buffer = dmabuf->priv; >>>>>>> + buffer->flags = flags; >>>>>>> + dma_buf_put(dmabuf); >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> + return 0; >>>>>>> +} >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> int ion_query_heaps(struct ion_heap_query *query) >>>>>>> { >>>>>>> struct ion_device *dev = internal_dev; diff --git >>>>>>> a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h >>>>>>> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h >>>>>>> index c006fc1..99bf9ab 100644 >>>>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h >>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h >>>>>>> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ int ion_heap_pages_zero(struct page >> *page, >>>>>> size_t size, pgprot_t pgprot); >>>>>>> int ion_alloc(size_t len, >>>>>>> unsigned int heap_id_mask, >>>>>>> unsigned int flags); >>>>>>> +int ion_buffer_update(unsigned int fd, unsigned int flags); >>>>>>> >>>>>>> /** >>>>>>> * ion_heap_init_shrinker >>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h >>>>>>> b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h >>>>>>> index 5d70098..99753fc 100644 >>>>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h >>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h >>>>>>> @@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ struct ion_allocation_data { >>>>>>> __u32 unused; >>>>>>> }; >>>>>>> >>>>>>> +/** >>>>>>> + * struct ion_buffer_flag_data - metadata passed from userspace >>>>>>> +for update >>>>>>> + * buffer flags >>>>>>> + * @fd: file descriptor of the buffer >>>>>>> + * @flags: flags passed to the buffer >>>>>>> + * >>>>>>> + * Provided by userspace as an argument to the ioctl */ >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> +struct ion_buffer_flag_data { >>>>>>> + __u32 fd; >>>>>>> + __u32 flags; >>>>>>> +} >>>>>>> + >>>>>>> #define MAX_HEAP_NAME 32 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> /** >>>>>>> @@ -116,6 +130,14 @@ struct ion_heap_query { >>>>>>> struct ion_allocation_data) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> /** >>>>>>> + * DOC: ION_IOC_BUFFER_UPDATE - update the specified ion >> buffer >>>>>> flags >>>>>>> + * >>>>>>> + * Takes an ion_buffer_flag_data structure and returns the result >>>>>>> +of the >>>>>>> + * buffer flag update operation. >>>>>>> + */ >>>>>>> +#define ION_IOC_BUFFER_UPDATE _IOWR(ION_IOC_MAGIC, 1, \ >>>>>>> + struct ion_buffer_flag_data) >>>>>>> +/** >>>>>>> * DOC: ION_IOC_HEAP_QUERY - information about available >>>> heaps >>>>>>> * >>>>>>> * Takes an ion_heap_query structure and populates >> information >>>>>> about >>>>>>> >>>>> >>> >

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