| Message ID | 20190121055335.15430-1-vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive) |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > The clients using this cache request their slices from this > system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > set accordingly. This series add the required support. > Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > This change is a realisation of following changes from downstream msm-4.9: > iommu: io-pgtable-arm: Support DOMAIN_ATTRIBUTE_USE_UPSTREAM_HINT[2] > iommu: io-pgtable-arm: Implement IOMMU_USE_UPSTREAM_HINT[3] > > Changes since v2: > - Split the patches into io-pgtable-arm driver and arm-smmu driver. > - Converted smmu domain attributes to a bitmap, so multiple attributes > can be managed easily. > - With addition of non-coherent page table mapping support [4], this > patch series now aligns with the understanding of upgrading the > non-coherent devices to use some level of outer cache. > - Updated the macros and comments to reflect the use of QCOM_SYS_CACHE. > - QCOM_SYS_CACHE can still be used at stage 2, so that doens't depend on > stage-1 mapping. > - Added change to disable the attribute from arm_smmu_domain_set_attr() > when needed. > - Removed the page protection controls for QCOM_SYS_CACHE at the DMA API > level. > > Goes on top of the non-coherent page tables support patch series [4] > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10302791/ > [2] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?h=msm-4.9&id=bf762276796e79ca90014992f4d9da5593fa7d51 > [3] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?h=msm-4.9&id=d4c72c413ea27c43f60825193d4de9cb8ffd9602 > [4] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1032938/ > > Vivek Gautam (3): > iommu/arm-smmu: Move to bitmap for arm_smmu_domain atrributes > iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add support to use system cache > iommu/arm-smmu: Add support to use system cache > > drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- > drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h | 4 ++++ > include/linux/iommu.h | 2 ++ > 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > -- > QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member > of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
Hi, On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > > Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan GFXBench benchmarks. As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. Pratik can add more if I am missing something. To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. Regards Vivek > > > > > This change is a realisation of following changes from downstream msm-4.9: > > iommu: io-pgtable-arm: Support DOMAIN_ATTRIBUTE_USE_UPSTREAM_HINT[2] > > iommu: io-pgtable-arm: Implement IOMMU_USE_UPSTREAM_HINT[3] > > > > Changes since v2: > > - Split the patches into io-pgtable-arm driver and arm-smmu driver. > > - Converted smmu domain attributes to a bitmap, so multiple attributes > > can be managed easily. > > - With addition of non-coherent page table mapping support [4], this > > patch series now aligns with the understanding of upgrading the > > non-coherent devices to use some level of outer cache. > > - Updated the macros and comments to reflect the use of QCOM_SYS_CACHE. > > - QCOM_SYS_CACHE can still be used at stage 2, so that doens't depend on > > stage-1 mapping. > > - Added change to disable the attribute from arm_smmu_domain_set_attr() > > when needed. > > - Removed the page protection controls for QCOM_SYS_CACHE at the DMA API > > level. > > > > Goes on top of the non-coherent page tables support patch series [4] > > > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10302791/ > > [2] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?h=msm-4.9&id=bf762276796e79ca90014992f4d9da5593fa7d51 > > [3] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?h=msm-4.9&id=d4c72c413ea27c43f60825193d4de9cb8ffd9602 > > [4] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1032938/ > > > > Vivek Gautam (3): > > iommu/arm-smmu: Move to bitmap for arm_smmu_domain atrributes > > iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add support to use system cache > > iommu/arm-smmu: Add support to use system cache > > > > drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > > drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- > > drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h | 4 ++++ > > include/linux/iommu.h | 2 ++ > > 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > -- > > QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member > > of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > > Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > > System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > > before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > > The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > > system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > > For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > > buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > > set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > > > > > Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > GFXBench benchmarks. > Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly to the device, not from the device. > As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes?
On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel >> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as >>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right >>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. >>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this >>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. >>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for >>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be >>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. >>>> >>> >>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The >>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache >>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by >>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond >>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. >> >> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan >> GFXBench benchmarks. >> > > Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > to the device, not from the device. > >> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka >> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. >> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and >> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. >> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. >> >> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a >> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. >> > > So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. Robin.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > >> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > >>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > >>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > >>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > >>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > >>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > >>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > >>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > >>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > >>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > >>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > >>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > >> > >> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > >> GFXBench benchmarks. > >> > > > > Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > to the device, not from the device. > > > >> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > >> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > >> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > >> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > >> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > >> > >> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > >> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > >> > > > > So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > > > We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack the 'dma-coherent' attribute?
On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: >> >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. >>>> >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. >>>> >>> >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly >>> to the device, not from the device. >>> >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. >>>> >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. >>>> >>> >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? >>> >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? >> >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. >> > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. The case of the outer cacheablility being not that but a hint to control non-CPU traffic through some not-quite-transparent cache behind the PoC definitely stays wrapped up in qcom-specific magic ;) Robin.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > >>>> > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > >>> to the device, not from the device. > >>> > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > >>>> > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > >>>> > >>> > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > >>> > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > >> > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > >> > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? > The > case of the outer cacheablility being not that but a hint to control > non-CPU traffic through some not-quite-transparent cache behind the PoC > definitely stays wrapped up in qcom-specific magic ;) > I'm not surprised ...
On 21/01/2019 14:24, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: >> >> On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel >>>>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as >>>>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right >>>>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. >>>>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this >>>>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. >>>>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for >>>>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be >>>>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The >>>>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache >>>>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by >>>>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond >>>>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. >>>>>> >>>>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan >>>>>> GFXBench benchmarks. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly >>>>> to the device, not from the device. >>>>> >>>>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka >>>>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. >>>>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and >>>>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. >>>>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. >>>>>> >>>>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a >>>>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer >>>>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? >>>>> >>>>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the >>>>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used >>>>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the >>>>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? >>>> >>>> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable >>>> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to >>>> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is >>>> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. >>>> >>> >>> Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack >>> the 'dma-coherent' attribute? >> >> Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there >> actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? I only have a relatively vague impression of how this Qcom interconnect actually behaves, but AIUI the outer attribute has no correctness impact (it's effectively mismatched between CPU and devices already), only some degree of latency improvement which is effectively the opposite of no-snoop, in allowing certain non-coherent device traffic to still allocate in the LLC. I'm assuming that if that latency matters for the device accesses themselves, it might also matter for the associated table walks depending on the TLB miss rate. Robin.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > >>>> > > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > >>> to the device, not from the device. > > >>> > > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > >>>> > > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > >>> > > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > >> > > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > > >> > > > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? The reason for this SMMU changes is that the non-coherent devices can't access the inner caches at all. But they have a way to allocate and lookup in system cache. CPU will by default make use of system cache when the inner-cacheable and outer-cacheable memory attribute is set. So for SMMU page tables to be visible to PTW, -- For IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations are not required for buffers marked Normal Cached to achieve a coherent view of memory. However, client-specific cache maintenance may still be required for devices with local caches (for example, compute DSP local L1 or L2). -- For non-IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations (cleans and/or invalidates) are required at buffer handoff points for buffers marked as Normal Cached in any CPU page table in order to observe the latest updates. Regards Vivek > > > The > > case of the outer cacheablility being not that but a hint to control > > non-CPU traffic through some not-quite-transparent cache behind the PoC > > definitely stays wrapped up in qcom-specific magic ;) > > > > I'm not surprised ...
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 07:58, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM Ard Biesheuvel > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Hi, > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > >>>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > > > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > > >>> to the device, not from the device. > > > >>> > > > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > > > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > > > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > > > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > > > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > > > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > > >>> > > > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > > >> > > > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > > > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > > > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > > > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > > > > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > > > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? > > The reason for this SMMU changes is that the non-coherent devices > can't access the inner caches at all. But they have a way to allocate > and lookup in system cache. > > CPU will by default make use of system cache when the inner-cacheable > and outer-cacheable memory attribute is set. > > So for SMMU page tables to be visible to PTW, > -- For IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations are not > required for buffers marked Normal Cached to achieve a coherent view of > memory. However, client-specific cache maintenance may still be > required for devices > with local caches (for example, compute DSP local L1 or L2). Why would devices need to access the SMMU page tables? > -- For non-IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations (cleans > and/or invalidates) are required at buffer handoff points for buffers marked as > Normal Cached in any CPU page table in order to observe the latest updates. > Indeed, and this is what your non-coherent SMMU PTW requires, and what you /should/ get when you omit the 'dma-coherent' property from its DT node (and if you don't, it is a bug in the SMMU driver that should get fixed) The question is whether using inner-non-cached/outer-cacheable attributes for the PTW is required for correctness, or whether it is merely an optimization (since the point of this exercise was to avoid snoop latency from the SMMU PTW). If it is an optimization, I would like to understand whether the performance delta between SMMU page tables in DRAM vs SMMU page tables in the LLC justifies these intrusive changes to the SMMU driver. > > > > > The > > > case of the outer cacheablility being not that but a hint to control > > > non-CPU traffic through some not-quite-transparent cache behind the PoC > > > definitely stays wrapped up in qcom-specific magic ;) > > > > > > > I'm not surprised ... > > > > -- > QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member > of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
Hi Ard, On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:25 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 07:58, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> Hi, > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > >>>>> > > > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > >>>>>> > > > > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > > > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > > > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > > > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > > > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > > > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > > > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > > > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > > >>>>>> > > > > >>>>> > > > > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > > > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > > > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > > > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > > > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > > > > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > > > >>> to the device, not from the device. > > > > >>> > > > > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > > > > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > > > > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > > > > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > > > > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > > > > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > > > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > > > >>> > > > > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > > > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > > > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > > > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > > > >> > > > > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > > > > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > > > > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > > > > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > > > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > > > > > > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > > > > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > > > > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > > > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > > > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > > > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > > > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > > > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? > > > > The reason for this SMMU changes is that the non-coherent devices > > can't access the inner caches at all. But they have a way to allocate > > and lookup in system cache. > > > > CPU will by default make use of system cache when the inner-cacheable > > and outer-cacheable memory attribute is set. > > > > So for SMMU page tables to be visible to PTW, > > -- For IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations are not > > required for buffers marked Normal Cached to achieve a coherent view of > > memory. However, client-specific cache maintenance may still be > > required for devices > > with local caches (for example, compute DSP local L1 or L2). > > Why would devices need to access the SMMU page tables? No, the devices don't need to access the page tables, rather the PTW does. Sorry for mixing it up. > > > -- For non-IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations (cleans > > and/or invalidates) are required at buffer handoff points for buffers marked as > > Normal Cached in any CPU page table in order to observe the latest updates. > > > > Indeed, and this is what your non-coherent SMMU PTW requires, and what > you /should/ get when you omit the 'dma-coherent' property from its DT > node (and if you don't, it is a bug in the SMMU driver that should get > fixed) > > The question is whether using inner-non-cached/outer-cacheable > attributes for the PTW is required for correctness, or whether it is > merely an optimization (since the point of this exercise was to avoid > snoop latency from the SMMU PTW). If it is an optimization, I would > like to understand whether the performance delta between SMMU page > tables in DRAM vs SMMU page tables in the LLC justifies these > intrusive changes to the SMMU driver. IIUC, SMMU uses the TCR configurations to decide how PTW should access the memory. TCR doesn't direct CPU whether to use cacheable or non -cacheable memory to allocate page tables. Is that right? Currently, these TCR configurations are set for inner-cacheable, and outer-cacheable. With this, is it assumed that PTW would snoop into the CPU caches for any updates of the page tables? When we omit 'dma-coherent', CPU will allocate non-coherent memory for these page tables, and software has to explicitly flush CPU caches to make the changes visible to SMMU. The CPU will still mark this memory as Normal Cached, i.e. inner cached, outer cached, and the non-IO coherent SMMU PTW won't be able to snoop into CPU caches. Does the following code in io-pgtable-arm.c ensures that SMMU sees the latest page tables? } else if (!(cfg->quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NO_DMA) && !(pte & ARM_LPAE_PTE_SW_SYNC)) { __arm_lpae_sync_pte(ptep, cfg); } This change is mostly to get optimized PTW. As seen in the patch [1] for GPU, there's a separate slice for page tables - "gpuhtw_llc_slice". Let me try to get the numbers for this optimization. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10302791/ Regards Vivek > > > > > > > > > The > > > > case of the outer cacheablility being not that but a hint to control > > > > non-CPU traffic through some not-quite-transparent cache behind the PoC > > > > definitely stays wrapped up in qcom-specific magic ;) > > > > > > > > > > I'm not surprised ... > > > > > > > > -- > > QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member > > of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation > _______________________________________________ > iommu mailing list > iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
(+ Bjorn) On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 12:27, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > Hi Ard, > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:25 PM Ard Biesheuvel > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 07:58, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> Hi, > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > > > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > >>>>> > > > > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > > > > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > > > > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > > > > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > > > > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > > > > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > > > > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > > > > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > > > >>>>>> > > > > > >>>>> > > > > > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > > > > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > > > > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > > > > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > > > > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > > > > > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > > > > >>> to the device, not from the device. > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > > > > > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > > > > > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > > > > > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > > > > > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > > > > > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > > > > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > > > > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > > > > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > > > > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > > > > > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > > > > > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > > > > > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > > > > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > > > > > > > > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > > > > > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > > > > > > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > > > > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > > > > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > > > > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > > > > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > > > > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? > > > > > > The reason for this SMMU changes is that the non-coherent devices > > > can't access the inner caches at all. But they have a way to allocate > > > and lookup in system cache. > > > > > > CPU will by default make use of system cache when the inner-cacheable > > > and outer-cacheable memory attribute is set. > > > > > > So for SMMU page tables to be visible to PTW, > > > -- For IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations are not > > > required for buffers marked Normal Cached to achieve a coherent view of > > > memory. However, client-specific cache maintenance may still be > > > required for devices > > > with local caches (for example, compute DSP local L1 or L2). > > > > Why would devices need to access the SMMU page tables? > > No, the devices don't need to access the page tables, rather the PTW does. > Sorry for mixing it up. > > > > > > -- For non-IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations (cleans > > > and/or invalidates) are required at buffer handoff points for buffers marked as > > > Normal Cached in any CPU page table in order to observe the latest updates. > > > > > > > Indeed, and this is what your non-coherent SMMU PTW requires, and what > > you /should/ get when you omit the 'dma-coherent' property from its DT > > node (and if you don't, it is a bug in the SMMU driver that should get > > fixed) > > > > The question is whether using inner-non-cached/outer-cacheable > > attributes for the PTW is required for correctness, or whether it is > > merely an optimization (since the point of this exercise was to avoid > > snoop latency from the SMMU PTW). If it is an optimization, I would > > like to understand whether the performance delta between SMMU page > > tables in DRAM vs SMMU page tables in the LLC justifies these > > intrusive changes to the SMMU driver. > > IIUC, SMMU uses the TCR configurations to decide how PTW should access > the memory. TCR doesn't direct CPU whether to use cacheable or non -cacheable > memory to allocate page tables. Is that right? Correct > Currently, these TCR configurations are set for inner-cacheable, and > outer-cacheable. > With this, is it assumed that PTW would snoop into the CPU caches for > any updates > of the page tables? > ` Yes, and if I understand the issue correctly, this snooping is costly, which is why you want to avoid it, right? > When we omit 'dma-coherent', CPU will allocate non-coherent memory > for these page tables, and software has to explicitly flush CPU caches to > make the changes visible to SMMU. Indeed. But I would expect the TCR configuration to reflect this as well, and that doesn't appear the case. > The CPU will still mark this memory as Normal Cached, i.e. inner cached, > outer cached, and the non-IO coherent SMMU PTW won't be able to snoop into > CPU caches. Does the following code in io-pgtable-arm.c ensures that SMMU > sees the latest page tables? > > } else if (!(cfg->quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NO_DMA) && > !(pte & ARM_LPAE_PTE_SW_SYNC)) { > __arm_lpae_sync_pte(ptep, cfg); > } > I don't know the history of why NO_DMA is implemented as a quirk (and why it is called like that in the first place). But it indeed appears that this is where the cache maintenance occurs for non-coherent PTWs. > This change is mostly to get optimized PTW. As seen in the patch [1] for GPU, > there's a separate slice for page tables - "gpuhtw_llc_slice". > Let me try to get the numbers for this optimization. > Yes, please. We'd need to compare page tables in the LLC with page tables in system RAM, and for completeness, it would be nice to include the cache-coherent configuration as well.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:34 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > (+ Bjorn) > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 12:27, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Ard, > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:25 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 07:58, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 21/01/2019 13:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:25, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> On 21/01/2019 10:50, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > > >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 11:17, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>>> Hi, > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel > > > > > > >>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > >>>>> > > > > > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:54, Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > > > > > >>>>>> > > > > > > >>>>>> Qualcomm SoCs have an additional level of cache called as > > > > > > >>>>>> System cache, aka. Last level cache (LLC). This cache sits right > > > > > > >>>>>> before the DDR, and is tightly coupled with the memory controller. > > > > > > >>>>>> The clients using this cache request their slices from this > > > > > > >>>>>> system cache, make it active, and can then start using it. > > > > > > >>>>>> For these clients with smmu, to start using the system cache for > > > > > > >>>>>> buffers and, related page tables [1], memory attributes need to be > > > > > > >>>>>> set accordingly. This series add the required support. > > > > > > >>>>>> > > > > > > >>>>> > > > > > > >>>>> Does this actually improve performance on reads from a device? The > > > > > > >>>>> non-cache coherent DMA routines perform an unconditional D-cache > > > > > > >>>>> invalidate by VA to the PoC before reading from the buffers filled by > > > > > > >>>>> the device, and I would expect the PoC to be defined as lying beyond > > > > > > >>>>> the LLC to still guarantee the architected behavior. > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>>> We have seen performance improvements when running Manhattan > > > > > > >>>> GFXBench benchmarks. > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > >>> Ah ok, that makes sense, since in that case, the data flow is mostly > > > > > > >>> to the device, not from the device. > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > >>>> As for the PoC, from my knowledge on sdm845 the system cache, aka > > > > > > >>>> Last level cache (LLC) lies beyond the point of coherency. > > > > > > >>>> Non-cache coherent buffers will not be cached to system cache also, and > > > > > > >>>> no additional software cache maintenance ops are required for system cache. > > > > > > >>>> Pratik can add more if I am missing something. > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>>> To take care of the memory attributes from DMA APIs side, we can add a > > > > > > >>>> DMA_ATTR definition to take care of any dma non-coherent APIs calls. > > > > > > >>>> > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > >>> So does the device use the correct inner non-cacheable, outer > > > > > > >>> writeback cacheable attributes if the SMMU is in pass-through? > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > >>> We have been looking into another use case where the fact that the > > > > > > >>> SMMU overrides memory attributes is causing issues (WC mappings used > > > > > > >>> by the radeon and amdgpu driver). So if the SMMU would honour the > > > > > > >>> existing attributes, would you still need the SMMU changes? > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> Even if we could force a stage 2 mapping with the weakest pagetable > > > > > > >> attributes (such that combining would work), there would still need to > > > > > > >> be a way to set the TCR attributes appropriately if this behaviour is > > > > > > >> wanted for the SMMU's own table walks as well. > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Isn't that just a matter of implementing support for SMMUs that lack > > > > > > > the 'dma-coherent' attribute? > > > > > > > > > > > > Not quite - in general they need INC-ONC attributes in case there > > > > > > actually is something in the architectural outer-cacheable domain. > > > > > > > > > > But is it a problem to use INC-ONC attributes for the SMMU PTW on this > > > > > chip? AIUI, the reason for the SMMU changes is to avoid the > > > > > performance hit of snooping, which is more expensive than cache > > > > > maintenance of SMMU page tables. So are you saying the by-VA cache > > > > > maintenance is not relayed to this system cache, resulting in page > > > > > table updates to be invisible to masters using INC-ONC attributes? > > > > > > > > The reason for this SMMU changes is that the non-coherent devices > > > > can't access the inner caches at all. But they have a way to allocate > > > > and lookup in system cache. > > > > > > > > CPU will by default make use of system cache when the inner-cacheable > > > > and outer-cacheable memory attribute is set. > > > > > > > > So for SMMU page tables to be visible to PTW, > > > > -- For IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations are not > > > > required for buffers marked Normal Cached to achieve a coherent view of > > > > memory. However, client-specific cache maintenance may still be > > > > required for devices > > > > with local caches (for example, compute DSP local L1 or L2). > > > > > > Why would devices need to access the SMMU page tables? > > > > No, the devices don't need to access the page tables, rather the PTW does. > > Sorry for mixing it up. > > > > > > > > > -- For non-IO coherent clients, the CPU cache maintenance operations (cleans > > > > and/or invalidates) are required at buffer handoff points for buffers marked as > > > > Normal Cached in any CPU page table in order to observe the latest updates. > > > > > > > > > > Indeed, and this is what your non-coherent SMMU PTW requires, and what > > > you /should/ get when you omit the 'dma-coherent' property from its DT > > > node (and if you don't, it is a bug in the SMMU driver that should get > > > fixed) > > > > > > The question is whether using inner-non-cached/outer-cacheable > > > attributes for the PTW is required for correctness, or whether it is > > > merely an optimization (since the point of this exercise was to avoid > > > snoop latency from the SMMU PTW). If it is an optimization, I would > > > like to understand whether the performance delta between SMMU page > > > tables in DRAM vs SMMU page tables in the LLC justifies these > > > intrusive changes to the SMMU driver. > > > > IIUC, SMMU uses the TCR configurations to decide how PTW should access > > the memory. TCR doesn't direct CPU whether to use cacheable or non -cacheable > > memory to allocate page tables. Is that right? > > Correct > > > Currently, these TCR configurations are set for inner-cacheable, and > > outer-cacheable. > > With this, is it assumed that PTW would snoop into the CPU caches for > > any updates > > of the page tables? > > > ` > Yes, and if I understand the issue correctly, this snooping is costly, > which is why you want to avoid it, right? > > > When we omit 'dma-coherent', CPU will allocate non-coherent memory > > for these page tables, and software has to explicitly flush CPU caches to > > make the changes visible to SMMU. > > Indeed. But I would expect the TCR configuration to reflect this as > well, and that doesn't appear the case. Yea, we are discussing this case of TCR configurations for non-coherent memory in another thread [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1032939/ > > > The CPU will still mark this memory as Normal Cached, i.e. inner cached, > > outer cached, and the non-IO coherent SMMU PTW won't be able to snoop into > > CPU caches. Does the following code in io-pgtable-arm.c ensures that SMMU > > sees the latest page tables? > > > > } else if (!(cfg->quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NO_DMA) && > > !(pte & ARM_LPAE_PTE_SW_SYNC)) { > > __arm_lpae_sync_pte(ptep, cfg); > > } > > > > I don't know the history of why NO_DMA is implemented as a quirk (and > why it is called like that in the first place). > But it indeed appears that this is where the cache maintenance occurs > for non-coherent PTWs. > > > This change is mostly to get optimized PTW. As seen in the patch [1] for GPU, > > there's a separate slice for page tables - "gpuhtw_llc_slice". > > Let me try to get the numbers for this optimization. > > > > Yes, please. We'd need to compare page tables in the LLC with page > tables in system RAM, and for completeness, it would be nice to > include the cache-coherent configuration as well. Sure, let me ping Pratik and Patrick to check if they have already have these numbers available, else I can check it. Regards Vivek