On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:30:48PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Yeah, the IOMMU API being used internally is a historical accident, that
> we didn't get around to rectify yet. It's on my things-we-need-to-do
> list to prune the usage of the IOMMU API in etnaviv.
Okay, so for the time being, I drop
Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2017, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:03:54PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > There is no IOMMU driver in use. Etnaviv just uses part of the IOMMU API
> > to manage the GPU internal MMU, see
> > drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_iommu.c
>
> That
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:03:54PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> There is no IOMMU driver in use. Etnaviv just uses part of the IOMMU API
> to manage the GPU internal MMU, see
> drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_iommu.c
That looks like a very fragile construct, because it relies on internal
behavior o
Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2017, 15:45 +0200 schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:32:38PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > I don't think this is necessary. Etnaviv has managed and batched up TLB
> > flushes from day 1, as they don't happen through the MMU MMIO interface,
> >
Hi Lucas,
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:32:38PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> I don't think this is necessary. Etnaviv has managed and batched up TLB
> flushes from day 1, as they don't happen through the MMU MMIO interface,
> but through the GPU command stream.
>
> So if my understanding of this seri
Hi Joerg,
Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2017, 14:56 +0200 schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> From: Joerg Roedel
>
> The map and unmap functions of the IOMMU-API changed their
> semantics: They do no longer guarantee that the hardware
> TLBs are synchronized with the page-table updates they made.
>
> To make co
From: Joerg Roedel
The map and unmap functions of the IOMMU-API changed their
semantics: They do no longer guarantee that the hardware
TLBs are synchronized with the page-table updates they made.
To make conversion easier, new synchronized functions have
been introduced which give these guarante
