Re: [PATCH v7 14/15] dt-bindings: of: Add restricted DMA pool

[Claire Chang <tientzu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 7:35 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:29:20PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:53 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 01:13:22PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 02:42:14PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> > > > > @@ -138,4 +160,9 @@ one for multimedia processing (named 
> > > > > multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
> > > > >             memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;
> > > > >             /* ... */
> > > > >     };
> > > > > +
> > > > > +   pcie_device: pcie_device@0,0 {
> > > > > +           memory-region = <&restricted_dma_mem_reserved>;
> > > > > +           /* ... */
> > > > > +   };
> > > >
> > > > I still don't understand how this works for individual PCIe devices -- 
> > > > how
> > > > is dev->of_node set to point at the node you have above?
> > > >
> > > > I tried adding the memory-region to the host controller instead, and 
> > > > then
> > > > I see it crop up in dmesg:
> > > >
> > > >   | pci-host-generic 40000000.pci: assigned reserved memory node 
> > > > restricted_dma_mem_reserved
> > > >
> > > > but none of the actual PCI devices end up with 'dma_io_tlb_mem' set, and
> > > > so the restricted DMA area is not used. In fact, swiotlb isn't used at 
> > > > all.
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing to make this work with PCIe devices?
> > >
> > > Aha, looks like we're just missing the logic to inherit the DMA
> > > configuration. The diff below gets things working for me.
> >
> > I guess what was missing is the reg property in the pcie_device node.
> > Will update the example dts.
>
> Thanks. I still think something like my diff makes sense, if you wouldn't 
> mind including
> it, as it allows restricted DMA to be used for situations where the PCIe
> topology is not static.
>
> Perhaps we should prefer dev->of_node if it exists, but then use the node
> of the host bridge's parent node otherwise?

Sure. Let me add in the next version.

>
> Will