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SubjectRe: [PATCHv3 7/7] drm/msm/a6xx: Add support for using system cache(LLC)
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 08:23:07PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> On 2020-07-03 19:07, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:22:50PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
> > > index f455c597f76d..bd1d58229cc2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c
> > > @@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ static int msm_iommu_map(struct msm_mmu *mmu,
> > > uint64_t iova,
> > > iova |= GENMASK_ULL(63, 49);
> > >
> > >
> > > + if (mmu->features & MMU_FEATURE_USE_SYSTEM_CACHE)
> > > + prot |= IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY;
> >
> > Given that I think this is the only user of IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY, then
> > it
> > looks like it should actually be a property on the domain because we
> > never
> > need to configure it on a per-mapping basis within a domain, and
> > therefore
> > it shouldn't be exposed by the IOMMU API as a prot flag.
> >
> > Do you agree?
> >
>
> GPU being the only user is for now, but there are other clients which can
> use this.
> Plus how do we set the memory attributes if we do not expose this as prot
> flag?

I just don't understand the need for it to be per-map operation. Put another
way, if we extended the domain attribute to apply to cacheable mappings
on the domain and not just the table walk, what would break?

Will

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