On 15/10/2025 12:41, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:50:58 +0100
> Steven Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/10/2025 11:11, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> Will be needed if we want to skip CPU cache maintenance operations when
>>> the GPU can snoop CPU caches.
>>>
>>> v2:
>>> - New commit
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h |  1 +
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c    |  1 +
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c    | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_regs.h   |  2 ++
>>>  include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h            |  7 +++++++
>>>  5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h
>>> index 1e73efad02a8..bd38b7ae169e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h
>>> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct panfrost_features {
>>>     u32 thread_max_workgroup_sz;
>>>     u32 thread_max_barrier_sz;
>>>     u32 coherency_features;
>>> +   u32 selected_coherency;
>>>     u32 afbc_features;
>>>     u32 texture_features[4];
>>>     u32 js_features[16];
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
>>> index 607a5b8448d0..3ffcd08f7745 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
>>> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static int panfrost_ioctl_get_param(struct drm_device 
>>> *ddev, void *data, struct
>>>             PANFROST_FEATURE_ARRAY(JS_FEATURES, js_features, 15);
>>>             PANFROST_FEATURE(NR_CORE_GROUPS, nr_core_groups);
>>>             PANFROST_FEATURE(THREAD_TLS_ALLOC, thread_tls_alloc);
>>> +           PANFROST_FEATURE(SELECTED_COHERENCY, selected_coherency);
>>>  
>>>     case DRM_PANFROST_PARAM_SYSTEM_TIMESTAMP:
>>>             ret = panfrost_ioctl_query_timestamp(pfdev, &param->value);
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
>>> index 174e190ba40f..fed323e6a307 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
>>> @@ -260,7 +260,23 @@ static void panfrost_gpu_init_features(struct 
>>> panfrost_device *pfdev)
>>>     pfdev->features.max_threads = gpu_read(pfdev, GPU_THREAD_MAX_THREADS);
>>>     pfdev->features.thread_max_workgroup_sz = gpu_read(pfdev, 
>>> GPU_THREAD_MAX_WORKGROUP_SIZE);
>>>     pfdev->features.thread_max_barrier_sz = gpu_read(pfdev, 
>>> GPU_THREAD_MAX_BARRIER_SIZE);
>>> -   pfdev->features.coherency_features = gpu_read(pfdev, 
>>> GPU_COHERENCY_FEATURES);
>>> +
>>> +   if (panfrost_has_hw_feature(pfdev, HW_FEATURE_COHERENCY_REG))
>>> +           pfdev->features.coherency_features = gpu_read(pfdev, 
>>> GPU_COHERENCY_FEATURES);
>>> +   else
>>> +           pfdev->features.coherency_features = COHERENCY_ACE_LITE;
>>> +
>>> +   if (!pfdev->coherent) {
>>> +           pfdev->features.selected_coherency = COHERENCY_NONE;
>>> +   } else if (pfdev->features.coherency_features & COHERENCY_ACE) {
>>> +           pfdev->features.selected_coherency = COHERENCY_ACE;
>>> +   } else if (pfdev->features.coherency_features & COHERENCY_ACE_LITE) {
>>> +           pfdev->features.selected_coherency = COHERENCY_ACE_LITE;
>>> +   } else {
>>> +           drm_WARN(pfdev->ddev, true, "No known coherency protocol 
>>> supported");
>>> +           pfdev->features.selected_coherency = COHERENCY_NONE;
>>> +   }  
>>
>> Same comment as for panthor about not using bits when we can't have more
>> than one. But also here because selected_coherency is only a UAPI
>> concept, it would make sense to use the UAPI values, i.e.
>> DRM_PANFROST_GPU_COHERENCY_ACE_LITE etc rather than the private
>> COHERENCY_ACE_LITE defines.
> 
> For simplicity (we simply copy the coherency_features from the GPU reg
> at the moment), I want the HW/uAPI values to match, so I've added
> BUILD_BUG_ON()s. And I think I'd prefer to stick to the defs in
> panfrost_regs.h, such that if we ever end up writing that back to
> COHERENCY_ENABLE on newer HW, it's obvious we based the initialization
> on those HW values.

Yeah, BUILD_BUG_ON works as well. It just seemed a little fragile to be
using the 'wrong' symbol - and we're messed these symbols up before ;)

>>
>> Although there is actually a COHERENCY_ENABLE register on some GPUs
>> (BASE_HW_FEATURE_COHERENCY_REG in the kbase driver). Looks like it was
>> probably introduced for Bifrost. But AFAIK the above checks should be ok.
> 
> Yep. I didn't dare writing it back, because it's working as-is on all
> supported HW, and I don't want to regress things. Not that I've played
> with this COHERENCY_ENABLE reg on my amlogic board, which is coherent,
> to fake a non-coherent setup, and it works like a charm :-).
> 

Yeah, I don't know if it's actually useful beyond testing the
non-coherent mode, so probably not worth changing things.

Thanks,
Steve

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