[PATCH v4 6/7] arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on early IORT scan

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Tue Oct 27 07:50:10 EDT 2020


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> 
> We recently introduced a 1 GB sized ZONE_DMA to cater for platforms
> incorporating masters that can address less than 32 bits of DMA, in
> particular the Raspberry Pi 4, which has 4 or 8 GB of DRAM, but has
> peripherals that can only address up to 1 GB (and its PCIe host
> bridge can only access the bottom 3 GB)
> 
> Instructing the DMA layer about these limitations is straight-forward,
> even though we had to fix some issues regarding memory limits set in
> the IORT for named components, and regarding the handling of ACPI _DMA
> methods. However, the DMA layer also needs to be able to allocate
> memory that is guaranteed to meet those DMA constraints, for bounce
> buffering as well as allocating the backing for consistent mappings.
> 
> This is why the 1 GB ZONE_DMA was introduced recently. Unfortunately,
> it turns out the having a 1 GB ZONE_DMA as well as a ZONE_DMA32 causes
> problems with kdump, and potentially in other places where allocations
> cannot cross zone boundaries. Therefore, we should avoid having two
> separate DMA zones when possible.
> 
> So let's do an early scan of the IORT, and only create the ZONE_DMA
> if we encounter any devices that need it. This puts the burden on
> the firmware to describe such limitations in the IORT, which may be
> redundant (and less precise) if _DMA methods are also being provided.
> However, it should be noted that this situation is highly unusual for
> arm64 ACPI machines. Also, the DMA subsystem still gives precedence to
> the _DMA method if implemented, and so we will not lose the ability to
> perform streaming DMA outside the ZONE_DMA if the _DMA method permits
> it.
> 
> Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> [nsaenz: Rebased, removed documentation change and add declaration in acpi_iort.h]
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes since v3:
>  - Use min_not_zero()
>  - Check ACPI revision
>  - Remove unnecessary #ifdef in zone_sizes_init()
> 
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c      |  3 ++-
>  drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/acpi_iort.h |  4 +++
>  3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 94e38f99748b..f5d4f85506e4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include <linux/kexec.h>
>  #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
>  #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
> +#include <linux/acpi_iort.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/boot.h>
>  #include <asm/fixmap.h>
> @@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(unsigned long min, unsigned long max)
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
>  	dt_zone_dma_bits = ilog2(of_dma_get_max_cpu_address(NULL));
> -	zone_dma_bits = min(32U, dt_zone_dma_bits);
> +	zone_dma_bits = min3(32U, dt_zone_dma_bits, acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size());
>  	arm64_dma_phys_limit = max_zone_phys(zone_dma_bits);
>  	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = PFN_DOWN(arm64_dma_phys_limit);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> index 9929ff50c0c0..05fe4a076bab 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> @@ -1718,3 +1718,55 @@ void __init acpi_iort_init(void)
>  
>  	iort_init_platform_devices();
>  }
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
> +/*
> + * Check the IORT whether any devices exist whose DMA mask is < 32 bits.
> + * If so, return the smallest value encountered, or 32 otherwise.
> + */
> +unsigned int __init acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size(void)
> +{
> +	struct acpi_table_iort *iort;
> +	struct acpi_iort_node *node, *end;
> +	acpi_status status;
> +	u8 limit = 32;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	if (acpi_disabled)
> +		return limit;
> +
> +	status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_IORT, 0,
> +				(struct acpi_table_header **)&iort);
> +	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> +		return limit;
> +
> +	node = ACPI_ADD_PTR(struct acpi_iort_node, iort, iort->node_offset);
> +	end = ACPI_ADD_PTR(struct acpi_iort_node, iort, iort->header.length);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < iort->node_count; i++) {
> +		if (node >= end)
> +			break;
> +
> +		switch (node->type) {
> +			struct acpi_iort_named_component *ncomp;
> +			struct acpi_iort_root_complex *rc;
> +
> +		case ACPI_IORT_NODE_NAMED_COMPONENT:
> +			ncomp = (struct acpi_iort_named_component *)node->node_data;
> +			limit = min_not_zero(limit, ncomp->memory_address_limit);
> +			break;
> +
> +		case ACPI_IORT_NODE_PCI_ROOT_COMPLEX:
> +			if (node->revision < 1)
> +				break;
> +
> +			rc = (struct acpi_iort_root_complex *)node->node_data;
> +			limit = min_not_zero(limit, rc->memory_address_limit);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		node = ACPI_ADD_PTR(struct acpi_iort_node, node, node->length);
> +	}
> +	acpi_put_table(&iort->header);
> +	return limit;
> +}
> +#endif
> diff --git a/include/linux/acpi_iort.h b/include/linux/acpi_iort.h
> index 20a32120bb88..7d2e184f0d4d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/acpi_iort.h
> +++ b/include/linux/acpi_iort.h
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void iort_dma_setup(struct device *dev, u64 *dma_addr, u64 *size);
>  const struct iommu_ops *iort_iommu_configure_id(struct device *dev,
>  						const u32 *id_in);
>  int iort_iommu_msi_get_resv_regions(struct device *dev, struct list_head *head);
> +unsigned int acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size(void);
>  #else
>  static inline void acpi_iort_init(void) { }
>  static inline u32 iort_msi_map_id(struct device *dev, u32 id)
> @@ -55,6 +56,9 @@ static inline const struct iommu_ops *iort_iommu_configure_id(
>  static inline
>  int iort_iommu_msi_get_resv_regions(struct device *dev, struct list_head *head)
>  { return 0; }
> +
> +static inline unsigned int acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size(void)
> +{ return 32; }
>  #endif
>  
>  #endif /* __ACPI_IORT_H__ */
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 



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