Re: [PATCH v2] drm/panfrost: Calculate lock region size correctly

[Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>]

On 03/09/2021 10:49, Steven Price wrote:
> It turns out that when locking a region, the region must be a naturally
> aligned power of 2. The upshot of this is that if the desired region
> crosses a 'large boundary' the region size must be increased
> significantly to ensure that the locked region completely covers the
> desired region. Previous calculations (including in kbase for the
> proprietary driver) failed to take this into account.
> 
> Since it's known that the lock region must be naturally aligned we can
> compute the required size by looking at the highest bit position which
> changes between the start/end of the lock region (subtracting 1 from the
> end because the end address is exclusive). The start address is then
> aligned based on the size (this is technically unnecessary as the
> hardware will ignore these bits, but the spec advises to do this "to
> avoid confusion").
> 
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>

Pushed to drm-misc-next, thanks for the reviews.

Steve

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> index dfe5f1d29763..e2629b8d6a02 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> @@ -58,17 +58,33 @@ static int write_cmd(struct panfrost_device *pfdev, u32 as_nr, u32 cmd)
>  }
>  
>  static void lock_region(struct panfrost_device *pfdev, u32 as_nr,
> -			u64 iova, u64 size)
> +			u64 region_start, u64 size)
>  {
>  	u8 region_width;
> -	u64 region = iova & PAGE_MASK;
> +	u64 region;
> +	u64 region_end = region_start + size;
>  
> -	/* The size is encoded as ceil(log2) minus(1), which may be calculated
> -	 * with fls. The size must be clamped to hardware bounds.
> +	if (!size)
> +		return;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The locked region is a naturally aligned power of 2 block encoded as
> +	 * log2 minus(1).
> +	 * Calculate the desired start/end and look for the highest bit which
> +	 * differs. The smallest naturally aligned block must include this bit
> +	 * change, the desired region starts with this bit (and subsequent bits)
> +	 * zeroed and ends with the bit (and subsequent bits) set to one.
>  	 */
> -	size = max_t(u64, size, AS_LOCK_REGION_MIN_SIZE);
> -	region_width = fls64(size - 1) - 1;
> -	region |= region_width;
> +	region_width = max(fls64(region_start ^ (region_end - 1)),
> +			   const_ilog2(AS_LOCK_REGION_MIN_SIZE)) - 1;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Mask off the low bits of region_start (which would be ignored by
> +	 * the hardware anyway)
> +	 */
> +	region_start &= GENMASK_ULL(63, region_width);
> +
> +	region = region_width | region_start;
>  
>  	/* Lock the region that needs to be updated */
>  	mmu_write(pfdev, AS_LOCKADDR_LO(as_nr), region & 0xFFFFFFFFUL);
>