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

Corentin Labbe clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 00:44:04 PDT 2022


Le Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 06:50:57AM +0800, Guo Ren a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 1:35 AM Corentin Labbe
> <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Le Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 04:49:34PM +0800, Guo Ren a écrit :
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > For me, my driver works fine, the problem came from dma_map_sg(), probably I didnt explain right, I restart.
> >
> > Example:
> > crypto self test send to my driver an AES cipher operation of 16 bytes inside a SG, but the original buffer is greater (said 32 for the example).
> > So the first 16 bytes are used by the SG and the last 16 bytes are a poisoned buffer (with value 0xFE) to check driver do not write beyong the normal operation of 16 bytes (and beyond the SG length).
> >
> > Doing the dma_map_sg(FROM_DEVICE) on the SG corrupt the whole buffer.
> > My driver write normally via DMA the first 16 bytes.
> > Crypto API check the last bytes, no more 0xFE, so it fail believing my driver wrote beyond the first 16 bytes.
> >
> > But even If I disable my hardware operation, the buffer is still corrupted. (See my sample code which just do dma_map/dma_unmap)
> >
> > So the problem is the dma_map(FROM_DEVICE) which change buffer content.
> >
> > So if this behavour is normal on D1 SoC, how to fix the crypto self tests ?
> Actually, FLUSH is safe for all, but more expensive. Can you tell me
> which arm SOC are you using? And which version of linux is running on
> your arm SOC?
> 

The SOC is Allwinner D1 (RiscV).
I am testing linux from https://github.com/smaeul/linux.git branch:origin/riscv/d1-wip




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