RPi4B: emmc2bus dma-range handling does not track the boot-time-FDT (u-boot based booting)

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 8 20:15:58 UTC 2020



On 2020-Oct-8, at 12:32, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020-Oct-8, at 11:34, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:38 PM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 11:33 AM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:01 AM Mark Millard via freebsd-arm
>>>>> <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> sys/gnu/dts/arm/bcm2711.dtsi reports:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>       /*
>>>>>>        * emmc2 has different DMA constraints based on SoC revisions. It was
>>>>>>        * moved into its own bus, so as for RPi4's firmware to update them.
>>>>>>        * The firmware will find whether the emmc2bus alias is defined, and if
>>>>>>        * so, it'll edit the dma-ranges property below accordingly.
>>>>>>        */
>>>>>> [... snip ...]
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have no words for how annoying this is.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> For a slightly more helpful response:
>>>> 
>>>> We can fix this, and it ends up being much cleaner than my current
>>>> hack. Basically, in bcm2835_vcbus.c, we should eradicate the
>>>> busdma_lowaddr from bcm283x_memory_soc_cfg.
>>>> 
>>>> bcm283x_dmabus_peripheral_lowaddr should instead take a device_t and
>>>> grab the bus's dma-ranges. It /looks/ to be valid on all the DTS I see
>>>> for the RPi boards we support, so we can just unconditionally use that
>>>> and things will just work for the newer RPi4 models.
>>>> 
>>>> From my discussion (with an assist Ian on address interpretation) on
>>>> IRC, so I don't forget:
>>>> 
>>>> dma-ranges is three-value: <dma_addr cpu_addr max_len>
>> 
>> Note: For the below I looked at 3 separate RPi4B
>> examples, using u-boot print fdt / when I could
>> or translating the dtb to a dts otherwise. One
>> of the examples is from one of ubuntu 2020.04.1's
>> RPi4B specific builds. The others I use with FreeBSD,
>> one for u-boot and one for uefi/ACPI.
>> 
>> (
>> 
>> cpu_addr is sized via the global:
>> 
>> /  {
>> 
>>        #address-cells = <0x2>;
>> 
>> and the dma_addr and max_len by more local definitions,
>> such as in:
>> 
>>                #address-cells = <0x1>;
>>                #size-cells = <0x1>;
>>                compatible = "simple-bus";
>>                dma-ranges = <0xc0000000 0x0 0x0 0x40000000>;
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>>                #address-cells = <0x2>;
>>                #size-cells = <0x2>;
>>                compatible = "simple-bus";
>>                dma-ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x4 0x0>;
>> 
>> Note that the above has #size-cells varying when:
>> 4 <= number of cells in dma-range . There will be
>> worse cases later, below.
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>>                        #address-cells = <0x3>;
>>                        #interrupt-cells = <0x1>;
>>                        #size-cells = <0x2>;
>>                        . . .
>>                        dma-ranges = <0x2000000 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc0000000>;
>> 
>> (The #address-cells being 3 indicates a bit mask as the first of the 3,
>> the bit mask indicating extra information about the context.)
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>>                #address-cells = <0x2>;
>>                #size-cells = <0x1>;
>>                compatible = "simple-bus";
>>                dma-ranges = <0x0 0xc0000000 0x0 0x0 0x40000000>;
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>>                #address-cells = <0x1>;
>>                #size-cells = <0x2>;
>>                compatible = "simple-bus";
>>                dma-ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x4 0x0>;
>> 
>> Note that for the last 2 examples above the number of cells
>> in the dma-range (5) is not sufficient to indicate the value
>> for #size-cells or #(dma-addr-cells) without presuming some
>> other context to disambiguate.
>> 
>> 
>> There is also an example of just:
>> 
>>                        dma-ranges;
>> 
>> (in firmware { . . . }).
>> 
>>>> We'll see 4 and 5 value variants of this because 64-bit addresses are
>>>> described with pairs of 32-bit values.
>>>> 
>>>> 4-value variant: dma_addr will be 32-bit, cpu_addr will be 64-bit
>>>> 5-value variant: both are 64-bit
>> 
>> There is an example shown above with 5-value having #size_cells
>> being 1 (32-bit) [and dma-addr being 64 bit (cells 2)] instead of
>> #size_cells being 2 (64-bit) [and dma_addr being 32-bit (cells 1)].
>> 
>>>> Note that bcm283x_dmabus_peripheral_lowaddr() will be returning
>>>> cpu_addr + (max_len - 1)
>>>> 
>>>> This won't match perfectly with what we currently return, but it will
>>>> be more accurate.
>>> 
>>> Here's a patch that I hacked out and can't test for quite a while yet,
>>> feel free to give it a shot:
>>> https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/bcm2835_vcbus.diff  -- the best
>>> guarantee I can give you is that it builds. We'll need to test it on
>>> both RPi4 models with the separate bus and the original RPi4s, as well
>>> as an RPi3 and RPi2/0w.
>> 
>> See above about trying to use the number of cells in a dma-ranges
>> to figure out the sizes of #size-cells or #(dma-addr-cells).
>> 
> 
> Yeah, Ian pointed out just a little bit ago the way this should be
> done correctly. The hacky patch should at least get it correct enough
> for now, then I can write a more generic version of dma-ranges parsing
> that does it correctly.

Okay.

Another type of overall issue (that may not apply to
the specific context here) is dtb content like:

        scb {
                compatible = "simple-bus";
                #address-cells = <0x00000002>;
                #size-cells = <0x00000002>;
                ranges = * 0x0000000007ef8a18 [0x00000060];
                dma-ranges = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xfc000000 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000000>;
                phandle = <0x000000d0>;
                pcie at 7d500000 {
                        compatible = "brcm,bcm2711-pcie";
                        . . .
                        #address-cells = <0x00000003>;
                        #interrupt-cells = <0x00000001>;
                        #size-cells = <0x00000002>;
                        . . .
                        dma-ranges = <0x02000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xc0000000>;
                        . . .
                };
                . . .

where the inner most dma-ranges is not from the just-surrounding
context (parent) but is strictly local (despite the parent
potentially also having dma-ranges). I think that only pcie at ...
is that way so far for the RPi4 --but notationally it seems to
be generally allowed.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
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