From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f199.google.com (mail-qk0-f199.google.com [209.85.220.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BE26B038C for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 07:54:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qk0-f199.google.com with SMTP id c85so139168911qkg.0 for ; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qk0-x229.google.com (mail-qk0-x229.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400d:c09::229]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6si5021911qkc.321.2017.03.03.04.54.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-qk0-x229.google.com with SMTP id n127so173595788qkf.0 for ; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:54:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170303102724.kun2gr6w2hq7hknq@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <1488491084-17252-1-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com> <20170303100433.lm5t4hqxj6friyp6@phenom.ffwll.local> <20170303102724.kun2gr6w2hq7hknq@phenom.ffwll.local> From: Benjamin Gaignard Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 13:54:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Laura Abbott , Sumit Semwal , Riley Andrews , =?UTF-8?B?QXJ2ZSBIasO4bm5ldsOlZw==?= , romlem@google.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Brian Starkey , Daniel Vetter , Mark Brown , Benjamin Gaignard , linux-mm@kvack.org 2017-03-03 11:27 GMT+01:00 Daniel Vetter : > On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 11:04:33AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:44:32PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > There's been some recent discussions[1] about Ion-like frameworks. There's >> > apparently interest in just keeping Ion since it works reasonablly well. >> > This series does what should be the final clean ups for it to possibly be >> > moved out of staging. >> > >> > This includes the following: >> > - Some general clean up and removal of features that never got a lot of use >> > as far as I can tell. >> > - Fixing up the caching. This is the series I proposed back in December[2] >> > but never heard any feedback on. It will certainly break existing >> > applications that rely on the implicit caching. I'd rather make an effort >> > to move to a model that isn't going directly against the establishement >> > though. >> > - Fixing up the platform support. The devicetree approach was never well >> > recieved by DT maintainers. The proposal here is to think of Ion less as >> > specifying requirements and more of a framework for exposing memory to >> > userspace. >> > - CMA allocations now happen without the need of a dummy device structure. >> > This fixes a bunch of the reasons why I attempted to add devicetree >> > support before. >> > >> > I've had problems getting feedback in the past so if I don't hear any major >> > objections I'm going to send out with the RFC dropped to be picked up. >> > The only reason there isn't a patch to come out of staging is to discuss any >> > other changes to the ABI people might want. Once this comes out of staging, >> > I really don't want to mess with the ABI. >> > >> > Feedback appreciated. >> >> Imo looks all good. And I just realized that cross-checking with the TODO, >> the 2 items about _CUSTOM and _IMPORT ioctls I noted are already there. > > One more for the todo: Add rst/sphinx documentation for ION. That's also > always a good excuse to review the internal interfaces and exported > symbols. But we can do that after destaging ... > -Daniel Removing alignment looks good for me but why not also remove it from struct ion_allocation_data since the field become useless ? Also does someone use ion_user_handle_t handle ? Can we directly export a dma-buf file descriptor ? Benjamin > >> >> Otherwise I looked through the patches, looks all really reasonable. >> >> Wrt merging, my experience from destaging the android syncpt stuff was >> that merging the patches through the staging tree lead to lots of >> cross-tree issues with the gpu folks wanting to use that. Ion will >> probably run into similar things, so I'd propose we pull these cleanup >> patches and the eventual de-staging in throught drm. Yes that defacto >> means I'm also volunteering myself a bit :-) >> >> In the end we could put it all into drivers/gpu/ion or something like >> that. >> >> Thoughts? Greg? >> -Daniel >> >> >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Laura >> > >> > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=148699712602105&w=2 >> > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linaro-mm-sig&m=148176050802908&w=2 >> > >> > Laura Abbott (12): >> > staging: android: ion: Remove dmap_cnt >> > staging: android: ion: Remove alignment from allocation field >> > staging: android: ion: Duplicate sg_table >> > staging: android: ion: Call dma_map_sg for syncing and mapping >> > staging: android: ion: Remove page faulting support >> > staging: android: ion: Remove crufty cache support >> > staging: android: ion: Remove old platform support >> > cma: Store a name in the cma structure >> > cma: Introduce cma_for_each_area >> > staging: android: ion: Use CMA APIs directly >> > staging: android: ion: Make Ion heaps selectable >> > staging; android: ion: Enumerate all available heaps >> > >> > drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c | 5 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig | 51 ++-- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/Makefile | 14 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Kconfig | 5 - >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Makefile | 1 - >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/hi6220_ion.c | 113 --------- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 6 - >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 282 ++++++--------------- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h | 5 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c | 16 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c | 15 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 102 ++------ >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c | 156 ------------ >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_enumerate.c | 89 +++++++ >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.c | 184 -------------- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.h | 37 --- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c | 3 - >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h | 57 ++++- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 14 +- >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/Makefile | 1 - >> > drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/tegra_ion.c | 80 ------ >> > include/linux/cma.h | 6 +- >> > mm/cma.c | 25 +- >> > mm/cma.h | 1 + >> > mm/cma_debug.c | 2 +- >> > 25 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 958 deletions(-) >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Kconfig >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Makefile >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/hi6220_ion.c >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c >> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_enumerate.c >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.c >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.h >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/Makefile >> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/tegra_ion.c >> > >> > -- >> > 2.7.4 >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in >> > the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, >> > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . >> > Don't email: email@kvack.org >> >> -- >> Daniel Vetter >> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation >> http://blog.ffwll.ch > > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org