[Linaro-open-discussions] Notes on Linaro Open Discussions meeting 4 Nov 2020
Jonathan Cameron
Jonathan.Cameron at Huawei.com
Mon Nov 23 17:44:15 UTC 2020
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:44:56 +0000
Mike Holmes <mike.holmes at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 3:13 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi via
> Linaro-open-discussions <linaro-open-discussions at op-lists.linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:36:21PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron via
> > Linaro-open-discussions wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This is a fusion of Mike's notes and my own. Please add anything I
> > missed!
> > > People may well be misidentified (sorry about that). Was very good
> > active discussion.
> > > Thanks to all involved and Mike in particular for organizing it and
> > taking live notes.
> > >
> > > General request
> > >
> > > - Slides for all topics next time to introduce topics as not everyone
> > on call will have necessary
> > > background (and those that do might need reminding!)
> > > Hanjun is sending Mike his slides (uncore DVFS) to add to the
> > collaborate page.
> > >
> > > IORT - Reserve memory regions (RMR)
> > > ===================================
> > >
> > > * Shameer gave summary
> > > - IORT Revision E (
> > https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0049/latest/) introduced new
> > node type.
> > > - A way to describe memory regions that should have unity mapping in
> > the SMMU.
> > > - Use case is a PCIe RAID card that has FW that uses a pool of host
> > memory (hidden from OS).
> > >
> > > * Status
> > > - Patches out for ACPICA
> > > - Question raised by ACPICA reviewers on whether spec is final
> > > - Spec appears final (Lorenzo to check) but may be minor unrelated
> > fix in doc to come (Sami).
> > > - Patches out for kernel on relevant lists.
> > > - Mail from Steven Price (Arm) - (Sami Mujawar who was on the call
> > also involved) interested for EFI
> > > framebuffer use case.
> > >
> > > * Open questions
> > > - Equivalent from AMD has flag to indicate that unity mapping only
> > needed until driver has taken over
> > > (end of kernel boot assumed). Avoids and issue of holes in address
> > space for VMs.
> > > - Huawei not raising this as a requirement, but Lorenzo observed
> > interesting and deserves discussion.
> > > - Kexec interaction needs discussions. Steve looking at this an will
> > bring to list.
> > > - Lorenzo brought up issue of IORT spec using PCI BDF (stream ID?)
> > which may be reenumerated.
> > > - Noted x86 doesn't do this but ARM traditionally does.
> > > - There is a DSM that tells the kernel not to reenumerate the PCI bus
> > which ACPI obeys.
> > > - Jonathan suggestion was potentially opportunity to cache original
> > stream ID before doing the
> > > reenumeration in kernel.
> > > - Lorenzo observed we may need a universal solution for all OSes on
> > this.
> > > Lorenzo took AI to go away and think about it before next call.
> > > - Stalling issues on patch? Probably only Kexec though should be
> > careful around possible future
> > > regressions on the BDF issue (not a blocker)
> > > - Related DT story. Huawei server team not interested as no DT support
> > and can't test.
> > > Lorenzo suggested looping in Thierry Reding and reference a patch set
> > > (probably
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200904130000.691933-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com/#t
> > )
> > > Huawei more than happy to have others add the DT support :)
> > >
> > > AI summary:
> > > * Kexec discussion - on list.
> > > * Use of BDF discussion - revisit here next time.
> >
> > I have an update on this topic and the RMR flags to free up IOVA.
> >
> > Is December 2nd confirmed as next session ?
>
>
> It is if we have an agenda, which we now do, I added your topic as
> confirmed.
>
>
> > If possible 3PM GMT works
> > better for me;
>
>
> Linaro has a standing internal meeting with its members at 3.00 pm on
> December 2nd, how is 4.30 pm GMT or retain the 2.00 pm slot?
I have another call at 4.30 but any time before that works for me.
If that's a problem for Lorenzo, perhaps we can shift the day slightly
or go earlier in the day?
>
>
> > the NUMA topic raised by Jonathan is another interesting
> > topic for debate. Other than that we can slot in the topics that
> > weren't discussed last time:
> >
> > https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/LOD/Linaro+Open+Discussions+Home
> >
> > even though those require a bit of preparation so the sooner we finalize
> > the schedule the better.
> >
> > Please let me know, thanks.
> >
>
> I think we should prepare any topic slides and have the call, does anyone
> have any additional agenda items?
I'll chase up our end over the next few days,
Thanks,
Jonathan
>
>
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > > * DT alignment. Don't want different solutions for each firmware type.
> > > * Lorenzo / Sami to check IORT revision E is final.
> > >
> > > SVA
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Zangfei gave summary:
> > > - Huawei has devices that are not PCIe but are presented as such.
> > > - They support stall mode for SVA (spec violation)
> > > - Resistance from kernel maintainers to maintaining a white list for
> > any quirk. Fine to fix
> > > it once (JPB), but not to keep doing so.
> > > - Note that stall mode not yet supported at all (JPB to send out this
> > cycle).
> > > - If longer term fix need add can't be done via PCISIG etc then need to
> > convince
> > > PCI and SMMU maintainers. Noted that quirk is very little code.
> > >
> > > * Other SVA topics.
> > > - Mentioned virtual SVA (no actually problems just expressing
> > interest!)
> > > - Would need Eric Auger, wasn't on topic list so Eric not on call.
> > >
> > > AI: Nothing planned until after JPB has upstreamed stall mode. Hard to
> > have discussion before that.
> > >
> > > DVFS
> > > ====
> > >
> > > guohanjun
> > >
> > > Solutions exist for
> > > * CPU DVFS (voltage + frequency scaling)
> > > * PCIe device power states etc
> > >
> > > No standard way of controlling Uncore voltage and frequency for ACPI
> > based systems.
> > >
> > > 3 options:
> > > 1. MMIO / kernel driver.
> > > 2. PSCI via trusted firmware and system management controller.
> > > 3. ACPI (wrapping up an op region and SCMI)
> > >
> > > Clarifications / discussions.
> > > * Vincent G: Power states, or voltage frequency of interest? Ans
> > Voltage Freq
> > > * Considered SCMI? Ans: Works only for DT as SCMI under ACPI is
> > wrapped up in AML
> > > so looks like an ACPI interface.
> > > * Sudeep H: Necessary to trace CPU freq? Yes.
> > > * Sudeep H: Why not do it in firmware entirely? Ans. Not just CPU.
> > For example PCI device accessing
> > > memory may well need the ring bus to be fast.
> > > * Vincent G: Bandwidth affected? Yes. VG: mobile does this by
> > specifying a BW requirement (via SCMI.-
> > > * Sudeep H Observed need to expose it via ACPI spec. (option 3 above).
> > > * Sudeep H: Does PCI also need fine-grain control? We might need to add
> > to the spec.
> > > * Sudeep H: What are the requirements? gaohanjun: Now we just
> > frequency scaling.
> > > * Jonathan C: Noted PCI power state is not enough. It's workload
> > dependent.
> > > * Sudeep H: We need to gather all the info, need to talk in ASWG about
> > DVFS
> > > * Jonathan C: For now direct control probably makes sense. Whilst it
> > would be nice to have
> > > a detailed enough system description in a standard way to make
> > general software that is a
> > > big spec job.
> > > * Jonathan C: Seems like true standard SW will not happen any time soon.
> > >
> > > AI: RFC to the linux-pm / linux-acpi Rafael and those in this discussion
> > to ask about
> > > interest in adding per device DVFS to ACPI spec. Possibly pursue
> > code first ACPI
> > > approach.
> > >
> > > If I've miss listed or "volunteered" anyone for AIs they didn't agree to
> > then please
> > > correct that.
> > >
> > > Thanks all for contributions. I for one found it a very useful call!
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > >
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