[PATCH] arm64: dts: juno: Enable some SMMUs
Jean-Philippe Brucker
jean-philippe.brucker at arm.com
Tue Jun 6 08:45:38 PDT 2017
Hello,
On 18/05/17 13:23, Robin Murphy wrote:
> The IOMMU-backed DMA API support has now been in place for a while and
> proven stable, so there's no real need to keep most of Juno's SMMUs
> disabled. The USB, HDLCDs, and CoreSight ETR all just need to map RAM
> buffers for DMA - enabling their SMMUs obviates CPU bounce buffering for
> USB's streaming DMA to the upper memory bank, and lets the other two
> allocate their relatively large coherent buffers without pressuring CMA.
>
> Some more software work is still needed for the DMA-330 and PCIe before
> those can accommodate SMMU translation correctly in all cases, so we
> leave those alone for now.
Out of curiosity, what is missing for DMA-330? I can use dmatest over SMMU
on my juno-r1 by enabling the node, but I don't have any complex workload
yet. Guest pass-through is really unreliable and I'm trying to figure out why.
Thanks,
Jean
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