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[RFC,0/3] iommu/samsung: Introduce Exynos sysmmu-v8 driver

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Sam Protsenko Jan. 20, 2022, 8:19 p.m. UTC
This is a draft of a new IOMMU driver used in modern Exynos SoCs (like
Exynos850) and Google's GS101 SoC (used in Pixel 6 phone). Most of its
code were taken from GS101 downstream kernel [1], with some extra
patches on top (fixes from Exynos850 downstream kernel and some porting
changes to adapt it to the mainline kernel). All development history can
be found at [2].

Similarities with existing exynos-iommu.c is minimal. I did some
analysis using similarity-tester tool:

8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8
    $ sim_c -peu -S exynos-iommu.c "|" samsung-*

    exynos-iommu.c consists for 15 % of samsung-iommu.c material
    exynos-iommu.c consists for 1 %  of samsung-iommu-fault.c material
    exynos-iommu.c consists for 3 %  of samsung-iommu.h material
8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8

So the similarity is very low, most of that code is some boilerplate
that shouldn't be extracted to common code (like allocating the memory
and requesting clocks/interrupts in probe function).

It was tested on v5.4 Android kernel on Exynos850 (E850-96 board) with
DPU use-case (displaying some graphics to the screen). Also it
apparently works fine on v5.10 GS101 kernel (on Pixel 6). On mainline
kernel I managed to build, match and bind the driver. No real world test
was done, but the changes from v5.10 (where it works fine) are minimal
(see [2] for details). So I'm pretty sure the driver is functional.

For this patch series I'd like to receive some high-level review for
driver's design and architecture. Coding style and API issues I can fix
later, when sending real (not RFC) series. Particularly I'd like to hear
some opinions about:
  - namings: Kconfig option, file names, module name, compatible, etc
  - modularity: should this driver be a different platform driver (like
    in this series), or should it be integrated into existing
    exynos-iommu.c driver somehow
  - dt-bindings: does it look ok as it is, or some interface changes are
    needed
  - internal driver architecture: approach seems to be similar to
    exynos-iommu.c, but any comments are welcome
  - ongoing work: please let me know if you're aware of some efforts to
    upstream this driver by some other party (e.g. Google engineers
    might be working on something similar)

Basically, I want to figure out what should be changed/fixed in this
driver (on a high level), so it can be considered "upstreamable".

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/gs/
[2] https://github.com/joe-skb7/linux/commits/iommu-exynos850-dev

Sam Protsenko (3):
  dt-bindings: iommu: Add bindings for samsung,sysmmu-v8
  iommu/samsung: Introduce Exynos sysmmu-v8 driver
  arm64: defconfig: Enable sysmmu-v8 IOMMU

 .../bindings/iommu/samsung,sysmmu-v8.txt      |   31 +
 arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                  |    2 +
 drivers/iommu/Kconfig                         |   13 +
 drivers/iommu/Makefile                        |    3 +
 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu-fault.c           |  617 +++++++
 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu-group.c           |   50 +
 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu.c                 | 1521 +++++++++++++++++
 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu.h                 |  216 +++
 include/dt-bindings/soc/samsung,sysmmu-v8.h   |   43 +
 9 files changed, 2496 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/samsung,sysmmu-v8.txt
 create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu-fault.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu-group.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/samsung-iommu.h
 create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/soc/samsung,sysmmu-v8.h

Comments

Krzysztof Kozlowski Jan. 21, 2022, 8:35 a.m. UTC | #1
On 20/01/2022 21:19, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> This is a draft of a new IOMMU driver used in modern Exynos SoCs (like
> Exynos850) and Google's GS101 SoC (used in Pixel 6 phone). Most of its
> code were taken from GS101 downstream kernel [1], with some extra
> patches on top (fixes from Exynos850 downstream kernel and some porting
> changes to adapt it to the mainline kernel). All development history can
> be found at [2].
> 
> Similarities with existing exynos-iommu.c is minimal. I did some
> analysis using similarity-tester tool:
> 
> 8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8
>     $ sim_c -peu -S exynos-iommu.c "|" samsung-*
> 
>     exynos-iommu.c consists for 15 % of samsung-iommu.c material
>     exynos-iommu.c consists for 1 %  of samsung-iommu-fault.c material
>     exynos-iommu.c consists for 3 %  of samsung-iommu.h material
> 8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8
> 
> So the similarity is very low, most of that code is some boilerplate
> that shouldn't be extracted to common code (like allocating the memory
> and requesting clocks/interrupts in probe function).

This is not a prove of lack of similarities. The vendor drivers have
proven track of poor quality and a lot of code not compatible with Linux
kernel style.

Therefore comparing mainline driver, reviewed and well tested, with a
vendor out-of-tree driver is wrong. You will almost always have 0% of
similarities, because vendor kernel drivers are mostly developed from
scratch instead of re-using existing drivers.

Recently Samsung admitted it - if I extend existing driver, I will have
to test old and new platform, so it is easier for me to write a new driver.

No, this is not that approach we use it in mainline.

Linaro should know it much better.

> 
> It was tested on v5.4 Android kernel on Exynos850 (E850-96 board) with
> DPU use-case (displaying some graphics to the screen). Also it
> apparently works fine on v5.10 GS101 kernel (on Pixel 6). On mainline
> kernel I managed to build, match and bind the driver. No real world test
> was done, but the changes from v5.10 (where it works fine) are minimal
> (see [2] for details). So I'm pretty sure the driver is functional.

No, we do not take untested code or code for different out-of-tree
kernels, not for mainline.

I am pretty sure drivers is poor or not working.

> 
> For this patch series I'd like to receive some high-level review for
> driver's design and architecture. Coding style and API issues I can fix
> later, when sending real (not RFC) series. Particularly I'd like to hear
> some opinions about:
>   - namings: Kconfig option, file names, module name, compatible, etc
>   - modularity: should this driver be a different platform driver (like
>     in this series), or should it be integrated into existing
>     exynos-iommu.c driver somehow
>   - dt-bindings: does it look ok as it is, or some interface changes are
>     needed

You sent bindings in TXT with dead code inside, and you ask if it is ok.
I consider this approach that you sent whatever junk to us hoping that
we will point all the issues instead of finding them by yourself.

I am pretty sure you have several folks in Linaro who can perform first
review and bring the code closer to mainline style.


Best regards,
Krzysztof