[PATCH 0/2] riscv: implement Zicbom-based CMO instructions + the t-head variant

[Guo Ren]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 4:45 PM Corentin Labbe
<clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:17:34AM +0800, Guo Ren a écrit :
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 3:32 AM Corentin Labbe
> > <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Le Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 12:47:29PM -0500, Samuel Holland a écrit :
> > > > On 4/16/22 2:35 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > > > Le Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:19:23PM -0500, Samuel Holland a écrit :
> > > > >> On 4/15/22 6:26 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > > >>> Le Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:46:18PM +0100, Heiko Stuebner a écrit :
> > > > >>>> This series is based on the alternatives changes done in my svpbmt series
> > > > >>>> and thus also depends on Atish's isa-extension parsing series.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> It implements using the cache-management instructions from the  Zicbom-
> > > > >>>> extension to handle cache flush, etc actions on platforms needing them.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> SoCs using cpu cores from T-Head like the Allwinne D1 implement a
> > > > >>>> different set of cache instructions. But while they are different,
> > > > >>>> instructions they provide the same functionality, so a variant can
> > > > >>>> easly hook into the existing alternatives mechanism on those.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Hello
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I am testing https://github.com/smaeul/linux.git branch:origin/riscv/d1-wip which contain this serie.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I am hitting a buffer corruption problem with DMA.
> > > > >>> The sun8i-ce crypto driver fail self tests due to "device overran destination buffer".
> > > > >>> In fact the buffer is not overran by device but by dma_map_single() operation.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> The following small code show the problem:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> dma_addr_t dma;
> > > > >>> u8 *buf;
> > > > >>> #define BSIZE 2048
> > > > >>> #define DMASIZE 16
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> buf = kmalloc(BSIZE, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
> > > > >>> for (i = 0; i < BSIZE; i++)
> > > > >>>     buf[i] = 0xFE;
> > > > >>> print_hex_dump(KERN_INFO, "DMATEST1:", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, 16, 4, buf, 256, false);
> > > > >>> dma = dma_map_single(ce->dev, buf, DMASIZE, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> > > > >>
> > > > >> This function (through dma_direct_map_page()) ends up calling
> > > > >> arch_sync_dma_for_device(..., ..., DMA_FROM_DEVICE), which invalidates the CPU's
> > > > >> cache. This is the same thing other architectures do (at least arm, arm64,
> > > > >> openrisc, and powerpc). So this appears to be working as intended.
> > > > >
> > > > > This behavour is not present at least on ARM and ARM64.
> > > > > The sample code I provided does not corrupt the buffer on them.
> > > >
> > > > That can be explained by the 0xFE bytes having been flushed to DRAM already in
> > > > your ARM/ARM64 tests, whereas in your riscv64 case, the 0xFE bytes were still in
> > > > a dirty cache line. The cache topology and implementation is totally different
> > > > across the SoCs, so this is not too surprising.
> > > >
> > > > Semantically, dma_map_single(..., DMA_FROM_DEVICE) means you are doing a
> > > > unidirectional DMA transfer from the device into that buffer. So the contents of
> > > > the buffer are "undefined" until the DMA transfer completes. If you are also
> > > > writing data into the buffer from the CPU side, then you need DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Samuel
> > >
> > > +CC crypto mailing list + maintainer
> > >
> > > My problem is that crypto selftest, for each buffer where I need to do a cipher operation,
> > > concat a poison buffer to check that device does write beyond buffer.
> > >
> > > But the dma_map_sg(FROM_DEVICE) corrupts this poison buffer and crypto selftests fails thinking my device did a buffer overrun.
> > >
> > > So you mean that on SoC D1, this crypto API check strategy is impossible ?
> >
> > I think you could try to replace all CLEAN & INVAL ops with FLUSH ops
> > for the testing. (All cache block-aligned data from the device for the
> > CPU should be invalided.)
> >
>
> With:
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c b/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> index 2c124bcc1932..608483522e05 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ void arch_sync_dma_for_device(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size, enum dma_data_dire
>                 ALT_CMO_OP(CLEAN, (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(paddr), size);
>                 break;
>         case DMA_FROM_DEVICE:
> -               ALT_CMO_OP(INVAL, (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(paddr), size);
> +               ALT_CMO_OP(FLUSH, (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(paddr), size);
>                 break;
>         case DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL:
>                 ALT_CMO_OP(FLUSH, (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(paddr), size);
>
>
> The crypto self test works and I got no more buffer corruption.
No, No ... it's not a solution. That means your driver has a problem.
>From device, we only need INVAL enough.

>
> Thanks



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Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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