Am 24.01.19 um 13:06 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> The DRM driver stack is designed to work with cache coherent devices
> only, but permits an optimization to be enabled in some cases, where
> for some buffers, both the CPU and the GPU use uncached mappings,
> removing the need for DMA snooping and allocation in the CPU caches.
>
> The use of uncached GPU mappings relies on the correct implementation
> of the PCIe NoSnoop TLP attribute by the platform, otherwise the GPU
> will use cached mappings nonetheless. On x86 platforms, this does not
> seem to matter, as uncached CPU mappings will snoop the caches in any
> case. However, on ARM and arm64, enabling this optimization on a
> platform where NoSnoop is ignored results in loss of coherency, which
> breaks correct operation of the device. Since we have no way of
> detecting whether NoSnoop works or not, just disable this
> optimization entirely for ARM and arm64.
>
> Cc: Christian Koenig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Zhou <[email protected]>
> Cc: Huang Rui <[email protected]>
> Cc: Junwei Zhang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michel Daenzer <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
> Cc: amd-gfx list <[email protected]>
> Cc: dri-devel <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

The subject line should probably read "disable uncached...".

With that fixed the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König 
<[email protected]>.

Regards,
Christian.

> ---
>   include/drm/drm_cache.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_cache.h b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> index bfe1639df02d..97fc498dc767 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_cache.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,24 @@ static inline bool drm_arch_can_wc_memory(void)
>       return false;
>   #elif defined(CONFIG_MIPS) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3)
>       return false;
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
> +     /*
> +      * The DRM driver stack is designed to work with cache coherent devices
> +      * only, but permits an optimization to be enabled in some cases, where
> +      * for some buffers, both the CPU and the GPU use uncached mappings,
> +      * removing the need for DMA snooping and allocation in the CPU caches.
> +      *
> +      * The use of uncached GPU mappings relies on the correct implementation
> +      * of the PCIe NoSnoop TLP attribute by the platform, otherwise the GPU
> +      * will use cached mappings nonetheless. On x86 platforms, this does not
> +      * seem to matter, as uncached CPU mappings will snoop the caches in any
> +      * case. However, on ARM and arm64, enabling this optimization on a
> +      * platform where NoSnoop is ignored results in loss of coherency, which
> +      * breaks correct operation of the device. Since we have no way of
> +      * detecting whether NoSnoop works or not, just disable this
> +      * optimization entirely for ARM and arm64.
> +      */
> +     return false;
>   #else
>       return true;
>   #endif

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