[PATCH 2/2] iommu: Extend LPAE page table format to support custom allocators

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at collabora.com
Wed Aug 9 05:17:44 PDT 2023


We need that in order to implement the VM_BIND ioctl in the GPU driver
targeting new Mali GPUs.

VM_BIND is about executing MMU map/unmap requests asynchronously,
possibly after waiting for external dependencies encoded as dma_fences.
We intend to use the drm_sched framework to automate the dependency
tracking and VM job dequeuing logic, but this comes with its own set
of constraints, one of them being the fact we are not allowed to
allocate memory in the drm_gpu_scheduler_ops::run_job() to avoid this
sort of deadlocks:

- VM_BIND map job needs to allocate a page table to map some memory
  to the VM. No memory available, so kswapd is kicked
- GPU driver shrinker backend ends up waiting on the fence attached to
  the VM map job or any other job fence depending on this VM operation.

With custom allocators, we will be able to pre-reserve enough pages to
guarantee the map/unmap operations we queued will take place without
going through the system allocator. But we can also optimize
allocation/reservation by not free-ing pages immediately, so any
upcoming page table allocation requests can be serviced by some free
page table pool kept at the driver level.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
---
 drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c     | 12 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
index 72dcdd468cf3..c5c04f0106f3 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
@@ -188,20 +188,28 @@ static dma_addr_t __arm_lpae_dma_addr(void *pages)
 }
 
 static void *__arm_lpae_alloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
-				    struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg)
+				    struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg,
+				    void *cookie)
 {
 	struct device *dev = cfg->iommu_dev;
 	int order = get_order(size);
-	struct page *p;
 	dma_addr_t dma;
 	void *pages;
 
 	VM_BUG_ON((gfp & __GFP_HIGHMEM));
-	p = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), gfp | __GFP_ZERO, order);
-	if (!p)
+
+	if (cfg->alloc) {
+		pages = cfg->alloc(cookie, size, gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
+	} else {
+		struct page *p;
+
+		p = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), gfp | __GFP_ZERO, order);
+		pages = p ? page_address(p) : NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (!pages)
 		return NULL;
 
-	pages = page_address(p);
 	if (!cfg->coherent_walk) {
 		dma = dma_map_single(dev, pages, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 		if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma))
@@ -220,18 +228,28 @@ static void *__arm_lpae_alloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
 out_unmap:
 	dev_err(dev, "Cannot accommodate DMA translation for IOMMU page tables\n");
 	dma_unmap_single(dev, dma, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+
 out_free:
-	__free_pages(p, order);
+	if (cfg->free)
+		cfg->free(cookie, pages, size);
+	else
+		free_pages((unsigned long)pages, order);
+
 	return NULL;
 }
 
 static void __arm_lpae_free_pages(void *pages, size_t size,
-				  struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg)
+				  struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg,
+				  void *cookie)
 {
 	if (!cfg->coherent_walk)
 		dma_unmap_single(cfg->iommu_dev, __arm_lpae_dma_addr(pages),
 				 size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
-	free_pages((unsigned long)pages, get_order(size));
+
+	if (cfg->free)
+		cfg->free(cookie, pages, size);
+	else
+		free_pages((unsigned long)pages, get_order(size));
 }
 
 static void __arm_lpae_sync_pte(arm_lpae_iopte *ptep, int num_entries,
@@ -373,13 +391,13 @@ static int __arm_lpae_map(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data, unsigned long iova,
 	/* Grab a pointer to the next level */
 	pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
 	if (!pte) {
-		cptep = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(tblsz, gfp, cfg);
+		cptep = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(tblsz, gfp, cfg, data->iop.cookie);
 		if (!cptep)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		pte = arm_lpae_install_table(cptep, ptep, 0, data);
 		if (pte)
-			__arm_lpae_free_pages(cptep, tblsz, cfg);
+			__arm_lpae_free_pages(cptep, tblsz, cfg, data->iop.cookie);
 	} else if (!cfg->coherent_walk && !(pte & ARM_LPAE_PTE_SW_SYNC)) {
 		__arm_lpae_sync_pte(ptep, 1, cfg);
 	}
@@ -524,7 +542,7 @@ static void __arm_lpae_free_pgtable(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data, int lvl,
 		__arm_lpae_free_pgtable(data, lvl + 1, iopte_deref(pte, data));
 	}
 
-	__arm_lpae_free_pages(start, table_size, &data->iop.cfg);
+	__arm_lpae_free_pages(start, table_size, &data->iop.cfg, data->iop.cookie);
 }
 
 static void arm_lpae_free_pgtable(struct io_pgtable *iop)
@@ -552,7 +570,7 @@ static size_t arm_lpae_split_blk_unmap(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data,
 	if (WARN_ON(lvl == ARM_LPAE_MAX_LEVELS))
 		return 0;
 
-	tablep = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(tablesz, GFP_ATOMIC, cfg);
+	tablep = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(tablesz, GFP_ATOMIC, cfg, data->iop.cookie);
 	if (!tablep)
 		return 0; /* Bytes unmapped */
 
@@ -575,7 +593,7 @@ static size_t arm_lpae_split_blk_unmap(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data,
 
 	pte = arm_lpae_install_table(tablep, ptep, blk_pte, data);
 	if (pte != blk_pte) {
-		__arm_lpae_free_pages(tablep, tablesz, cfg);
+		__arm_lpae_free_pages(tablep, tablesz, cfg, data->iop.cookie);
 		/*
 		 * We may race against someone unmapping another part of this
 		 * block, but anything else is invalid. We can't misinterpret
@@ -882,7 +900,7 @@ arm_64_lpae_alloc_pgtable_s1(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg, void *cookie)
 
 	/* Looking good; allocate a pgd */
 	data->pgd = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(ARM_LPAE_PGD_SIZE(data),
-					   GFP_KERNEL, cfg);
+					   GFP_KERNEL, cfg, cookie);
 	if (!data->pgd)
 		goto out_free_data;
 
@@ -984,7 +1002,7 @@ arm_64_lpae_alloc_pgtable_s2(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg, void *cookie)
 
 	/* Allocate pgd pages */
 	data->pgd = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(ARM_LPAE_PGD_SIZE(data),
-					   GFP_KERNEL, cfg);
+					   GFP_KERNEL, cfg, cookie);
 	if (!data->pgd)
 		goto out_free_data;
 
@@ -1059,7 +1077,7 @@ arm_mali_lpae_alloc_pgtable(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg, void *cookie)
 		 << ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_SHIFT(ARM_LPAE_MAIR_ATTR_IDX_DEV));
 
 	data->pgd = __arm_lpae_alloc_pages(ARM_LPAE_PGD_SIZE(data), GFP_KERNEL,
-					   cfg);
+					   cfg, cookie);
 	if (!data->pgd)
 		goto out_free_data;
 
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
index f4caf630638a..e273c18ae22b 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ static int check_custom_allocator(enum io_pgtable_fmt fmt,
 	if (!cfg->alloc)
 		return 0;
 
+	switch (fmt) {
+	case ARM_32_LPAE_S1:
+	case ARM_32_LPAE_S2:
+	case ARM_64_LPAE_S1:
+	case ARM_64_LPAE_S2:
+	case ARM_MALI_LPAE:
+		return 0;
+
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
-- 
2.41.0




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