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[v4] RFT: mmc: sdhci: Implement an SDHCI-specific bounce buffer

Message ID 20180112100022.3191-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org
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Series [v4] RFT: mmc: sdhci: Implement an SDHCI-specific bounce buffer | expand

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Linus Walleij Jan. 12, 2018, 10 a.m. UTC
The bounce buffer is gone from the MMC core, and now we found out
that there are some (crippled) i.MX boards out there that have broken
ADMA (cannot do scatter-gather), and broken PIO so they must use
SDMA. Closer examination shows a less significant slowdown also on
SDMA-only capable Laptop hosts.

SDMA sets down the number of segments to one, so that each segment
gets turned into a singular request that ping-pongs to the block
layer before the next request/segment is issued.

Apparently it happens a lot that the block layer send requests
that include a lot of physically discontigous segments. My guess
is that this phenomenon is coming from the file system.

These devices that cannot handle scatterlists in hardware can see
major benefits from a DMA-contigous bounce buffer.

This patch accumulates those fragmented scatterlists in a physically
contigous bounce buffer so that we can issue bigger DMA data chunks
to/from the card.

When tested with thise PCI-integrated host (1217:8221) that
only supports SDMA:
0b:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ600FJ0/OZ900FJ0/OZ600FJS
        SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 05)
This patch gave ~1Mbyte/s improved throughput on large reads and
writes when testing using iozone than without the patch.

On the i.MX SDHCI controllers on the crippled i.MX 25 and i.MX 35
the patch restores the performance to what it was before we removed
the bounce buffers, and then some: performance is better than ever
because we now allocate a bounce buffer the size of the maximum
single request the SDMA engine can handle. On the PCI laptop this
is 256K, whereas with the old bounce buffer code it was 64K max.

Cc: Benjamin Beckmeyer <beckmeyer.b@rittal.de>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Cc: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit@wsystem.com>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: de3ee99b097d ("mmc: Delete bounce buffer handling")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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ChangeLog v3->v4:
- Cap the bounce buffer to 64KB instead of the biggest segment
  as we experience diminishing returns with buffers > 64KB.
- Instead of using dma_alloc_coherent(), use good old devm_kmalloc()
  and issue dma_sync_single_for*() to explicitly switch
  ownership between CPU and the device. This way we exercise the
  cache better and may consume less CPU.
- Bail out with single segments if we cannot allocate a bounce
  buffer.
- Tested on the PCI SDHCI on my laptop: requesting a new test
  on i.MX from Benjamin. (Please!)
ChangeLog v2->v3:
- Rewrite the commit message a bit
- Add Benjamin's Tested-by
- Add Fixes and stable tags
ChangeLog v1->v2:
- Skip the remapping and fiddling with the buffer, instead use
  dma_alloc_coherent() and use a simple, coherent bounce buffer.
- Couple kernel messages to ->parent of the mmc_host as it relates
  to the hardware characteristics.
---
 drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h |   3 ++
 2 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

-- 
2.14.3

Comments

Benjamin Beckmeyer Jan. 12, 2018, 11:11 a.m. UTC | #1
> - Tested on the PCI SDHCI on my laptop: requesting a new test

>   on i.MX from Benjamin. (Please!)


Hey Linus,

sorry to say that but in my case the kernel doesn't boot anymore.
Again, after I "patched out" the bounce buffer it's running fine.
Here is the kernel output..

sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb4000.esdhc: host only supports SDMA, activate bounce buffer
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb4000.esdhc: bounce buffer: bounce up to 128 segments into one, max segment size 65536 bytes
mmc0: SDHCI controller on 53fb4000.esdhc [53fb4000.esdhc] using DMA
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb8000.esdhc: Got CD GPIO
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb8000.esdhc: Got WP GPIO
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb8000.esdhc: host only supports SDMA, activate bounce buffer
sdhci-esdhc-imx 53fb8000.esdhc: bounce buffer: bounce up to 128 segments into one, max segment size 65536 bytes
mmc1: SDHCI controller on 53fb8000.esdhc [53fb8000.esdhc] using DMA
mmc0: new high speed MMC card at address 0001
oprofile: no performance counters
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 002G00 1.83 GiB 
NET: Registered protocol family 10
mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 002G00 partition 1 512 KiB
mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 002G00 partition 2 512 KiB
Segment Routing with IPv6
sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
can: controller area network core (rev 20170425 abi 9)
NET: Registered protocol family 29
can: raw protocol (rev 20170425)
can: broadcast manager protocol (rev 20170425 t)
can: netlink gateway (rev 20170425) max_hops=1
input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input1
mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 002G00 partition 3 128 KiB
imxdi_rtc 53ffc000.dryice: setting system clock to 1970-01-03 01:46:38 UTC (179198)
 mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 >
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): ext4_check_descriptors: Checksum for group 3 failed (1874!=0)
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 4 not in group (block 0)!
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): group descriptors corrupted!
VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p8" or unknown-block(259,0): error -117
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
b300         1916928 mmcblk0 
 driver: mmcblk
  b301             767 mmcblk0p1 00000000-01

  b302             128 mmcblk0p2 00000000-02

  b303             128 mmcblk0p3 00000000-03

  b304               1 mmcblk0p4 

  b305             767 mmcblk0p5 00000000-05

  b306          409599 mmcblk0p6 00000000-06

  b307           16383 mmcblk0p7 00000000-07

  103:00000     409599 mmcblk0p8 00000000-08

  103:00001     102399 mmcblk0p9 00000000-09

  103:00002     961535 mmcblk0p10 00000000-0a

b318             128 mmcblk0rpmb 
 (driver?)
b310             512 mmcblk0boot1 
 (driver?)
b308             512 mmcblk0boot0 
 (driver?)
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(259,0)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(259,0)
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diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
index e9290a3439d5..694a320d9444 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
 #include <linux/swiotlb.h>
 #include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
@@ -502,8 +503,27 @@  static int sdhci_pre_dma_transfer(struct sdhci_host *host,
 	if (data->host_cookie == COOKIE_PRE_MAPPED)
 		return data->sg_count;
 
-	sg_count = dma_map_sg(mmc_dev(host->mmc), data->sg, data->sg_len,
-			      mmc_get_dma_dir(data));
+	/* Bounce write requests to the bounce buffer */
+	if (host->bounce_buffer) {
+		if (mmc_get_dma_dir(data) == DMA_TO_DEVICE) {
+			/* Copy the data to the bounce buffer */
+			sg_copy_to_buffer(data->sg, data->sg_len,
+					  host->bounce_buffer,
+					  host->bounce_buffer_size);
+		}
+		/* Switch ownership to the DMA */
+		dma_sync_single_for_device(host->mmc->parent,
+					   host->bounce_addr,
+					   host->bounce_buffer_size,
+					   DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+		/* Just a dummy value */
+		sg_count = 1;
+	} else {
+		/* Just access the data directly from memory */
+		sg_count = dma_map_sg(mmc_dev(host->mmc),
+				      data->sg, data->sg_len,
+				      mmc_get_dma_dir(data));
+	}
 
 	if (sg_count == 0)
 		return -ENOSPC;
@@ -858,8 +878,13 @@  static void sdhci_prepare_data(struct sdhci_host *host, struct mmc_command *cmd)
 					     SDHCI_ADMA_ADDRESS_HI);
 		} else {
 			WARN_ON(sg_cnt != 1);
-			sdhci_writel(host, sg_dma_address(data->sg),
-				SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS);
+			/* Bounce buffer goes to work */
+			if (host->bounce_buffer)
+				sdhci_writel(host, host->bounce_addr,
+					     SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS);
+			else
+				sdhci_writel(host, sg_dma_address(data->sg),
+					     SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -2248,7 +2273,12 @@  static void sdhci_pre_req(struct mmc_host *mmc, struct mmc_request *mrq)
 
 	mrq->data->host_cookie = COOKIE_UNMAPPED;
 
-	if (host->flags & SDHCI_REQ_USE_DMA)
+	/*
+	 * No pre-mapping in the pre hook if we're using the bounce buffer,
+	 * for that we would need two bounce buffers since one buffer is
+	 * in flight when this is getting called.
+	 */
+	if (host->flags & SDHCI_REQ_USE_DMA && !host->bounce_buffer)
 		sdhci_pre_dma_transfer(host, mrq->data, COOKIE_PRE_MAPPED);
 }
 
@@ -2352,8 +2382,28 @@  static bool sdhci_request_done(struct sdhci_host *host)
 		struct mmc_data *data = mrq->data;
 
 		if (data && data->host_cookie == COOKIE_MAPPED) {
-			dma_unmap_sg(mmc_dev(host->mmc), data->sg, data->sg_len,
-				     mmc_get_dma_dir(data));
+			if (host->bounce_buffer) {
+				/*
+				 * On reads, copy the bounced data into the
+				 * sglist
+				 */
+				if (mmc_get_dma_dir(data) == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) {
+					dma_sync_single_for_cpu(
+						host->mmc->parent,
+						host->bounce_addr,
+						host->bounce_buffer_size,
+						DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+					sg_copy_from_buffer(data->sg,
+						data->sg_len,
+						host->bounce_buffer,
+						host->bounce_buffer_size);
+				}
+			} else {
+				/* Unmap the raw data */
+				dma_unmap_sg(mmc_dev(host->mmc), data->sg,
+					     data->sg_len,
+					     mmc_get_dma_dir(data));
+			}
 			data->host_cookie = COOKIE_UNMAPPED;
 		}
 	}
@@ -2636,7 +2686,12 @@  static void sdhci_data_irq(struct sdhci_host *host, u32 intmask)
 		 */
 		if (intmask & SDHCI_INT_DMA_END) {
 			u32 dmastart, dmanow;
-			dmastart = sg_dma_address(host->data->sg);
+
+			if (host->bounce_buffer)
+				dmastart = host->bounce_addr;
+			else
+				dmastart = sg_dma_address(host->data->sg);
+
 			dmanow = dmastart + host->data->bytes_xfered;
 			/*
 			 * Force update to the next DMA block boundary.
@@ -3713,6 +3768,60 @@  int sdhci_setup_host(struct sdhci_host *host)
 	 */
 	mmc->max_blk_count = (host->quirks & SDHCI_QUIRK_NO_MULTIBLOCK) ? 1 : 65535;
 
+	if (mmc->max_segs == 1) {
+		unsigned int max_blocks;
+		unsigned int max_seg_size;
+
+		/*
+		 * Cap the bounce buffer at 64KB. Using a bigger bounce buffer
+		 * has diminishing returns, this is probably because SD/MMC
+		 * cards are usually optimized to handle this size of requests.
+		 */
+		max_seg_size = SZ_64K;
+		if (mmc->max_req_size < max_seg_size)
+			max_seg_size = mmc->max_req_size;
+		max_blocks = max_seg_size / 512;
+		dev_info(mmc->parent,
+			 "host only supports SDMA, activate bounce buffer\n");
+
+		/*
+		 * When we just support one segment, we can get significant
+		 * speedups by the help of a bounce buffer to group scattered
+		 * reads/writes together.
+		 */
+		host->bounce_buffer = devm_kmalloc(mmc->parent,
+						   max_seg_size,
+						   GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!host->bounce_buffer) {
+			dev_err(mmc->parent,
+				"failed to allocate %u bytes for bounce buffer, falling back to single segments\n",
+				max_seg_size);
+			/*
+			 * Exiting with zero here makes sure we proceed with
+			 * mmc->max_segs == 1.
+			 */
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+		host->bounce_buffer_size = max_seg_size;
+		host->bounce_addr = dma_map_single(mmc->parent,
+						   host->bounce_buffer,
+						   host->bounce_buffer_size,
+						   DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+		ret = dma_mapping_error(mmc->parent, host->bounce_addr);
+		if (ret)
+			/* Again fall back to max_segs == 1 */
+			return 0;
+
+		/* Lie about this since we're bouncing */
+		mmc->max_segs = max_blocks;
+		mmc->max_seg_size = max_seg_size;
+
+		dev_info(mmc->parent,
+			 "bounce buffer: bounce up to %u segments into one, max segment size %u bytes\n",
+			 max_blocks, max_seg_size);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 
 unreg:
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
index 54bc444c317f..865e09618d22 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@  struct sdhci_host {
 
 	int irq;		/* Device IRQ */
 	void __iomem *ioaddr;	/* Mapped address */
+	char *bounce_buffer;	/* For packing SDMA reads/writes */
+	dma_addr_t bounce_addr;
+	size_t bounce_buffer_size;
 
 	const struct sdhci_ops *ops;	/* Low level hw interface */