[PATCH v3] drivers: introduce and use WANT_DMA_CMA for soft dependencies on DMA_CMA

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Fri Apr 9 21:20:35 AEST 2021


Random drivers should not override a user configuration of core knobs
(e.g., CONFIG_DMA_CMA=n). Applicable drivers would like to use DMA_CMA,
which depends on CMA, if possible; however, these drivers also have to
tolerate if DMA_CMA is not available/functioning, for example, if no CMA
area for DMA_CMA use has been setup via "cma=X". In the worst case, the
driver cannot do it's job properly in some configurations.

For example, commit 63f5677544b3 ("drm/etnaviv: select CMA and DMA_CMA if
available") documents
	While this is no build dependency, etnaviv will only work correctly
	on most systems if CMA and DMA_CMA are enabled. Select both options
	if available to avoid users ending up with a non-working GPU due to
	a lacking kernel config.
So etnaviv really wants to have DMA_CMA, however, can deal with some cases
where it is not available.

Let's introduce WANT_DMA_CMA and use it in most cases where drivers
select CMA/DMA_CMA, or depend on DMA_CMA (in a wrong way via CMA because
of recursive dependency issues).

We'll assume that any driver that selects DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER or
DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER would like to use DMA_CMA if possible.

With this change, distributions can disable CONFIG_CMA or
CONFIG_DMA_CMA, without it silently getting enabled again by random
drivers. Also, we'll now automatically try to enabled both, CONFIG_CMA
and CONFIG_DMA_CMA if they are unspecified and any driver is around that
selects WANT_DMA_CMA -- also implicitly via DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER or
DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER.

For example, if any driver selects WANT_DMA_CMA and we do a
"make olddefconfig":

1. With "# CONFIG_CMA is not set" and no specification of
   "CONFIG_DMA_CMA"

-> CONFIG_DMA_CMA won't be part of .config

2. With no specification of CONFIG_CMA or CONFIG_DMA_CMA

Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator (DMA_CMA) [Y/n/?] (NEW)

3. With "# CONFIG_CMA is not set" and "# CONFIG_DMA_CMA is not set"

-> CONFIG_DMA_CMA will be removed from .config

Note: drivers/remoteproc seems to be special; commit c51e882cd711
("remoteproc/davinci: Update Kconfig to depend on DMA_CMA") explains that
there is a real dependency to DMA_CMA for it to work; leave that dependency
in place and don't convert it to a soft dependency.

Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux+etnaviv at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul at crapouillou.net>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster at al2klimov.de>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
Cc: Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-aspeed at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: etnaviv at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-mips at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
Cc: iommu at lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---

Let's see if this approach is better for soft dependencies (and if we
actually have some hard dependencies in there). This is the follow-up
of
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210408092011.52763-1-david@redhat.com
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210408100523.63356-1-david@redhat.com

I was wondering if it would make sense in some drivers to warn if either
CONFIG_DMA_CMA is not available or if DRM_CMA has not been configured
properly - just to give people a heads up that something might more likely
go wrong; that would, however, be future work.

v2 -> v3:
- Don't use "imply" but instead use a new WANT_DMA_CMA and make the default
  of CMA and DMA_CMA depend on it.
- Also adjust ingenic, mcde, tve200; these sound like soft dependencies as
  well (although DMA_CMA is really desired)

v1 -> v2:
- Fix DRM_CMA -> DMA_CMA

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig         | 2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/Kconfig  | 2 --
 drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig | 3 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/Kconfig | 1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig    | 1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig  | 1 -
 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig     | 2 +-
 kernel/dma/Kconfig              | 7 +++++++
 mm/Kconfig                      | 1 +
 9 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index 85b79a7fee63..6f9989adfa93 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -201,12 +201,14 @@ config DRM_TTM_HELPER
 config DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER
 	bool
 	depends on DRM
+	select WANT_DMA_CMA
 	help
 	  Choose this if you need the GEM CMA helper functions
 
 config DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER
 	bool
 	depends on DRM
+	select WANT_DMA_CMA
 	select DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER
 	help
 	  Choose this if you need the KMS CMA helper functions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/Kconfig
index 5e95bcea43e9..e5ff33f85f21 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/Kconfig
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ config DRM_ASPEED_GFX
 	depends on MMU
 	select DRM_KMS_HELPER
 	select DRM_KMS_CMA_HELPER
-	select DMA_CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
-	select CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
 	select MFD_SYSCON
 	help
 	  Chose this option if you have an ASPEED AST2500 SOC Display
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig
index faa7fc68b009..a3e7649b44a7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ config DRM_ETNAVIV
 	select THERMAL if DRM_ETNAVIV_THERMAL
 	select TMPFS
 	select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP
-	select CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
-	select DMA_CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
+	select WANT_DMA_CMA
 	select DRM_SCHED
 	help
 	  DRM driver for Vivante GPUs.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/Kconfig
index 3b57f8be007c..156b11b7bbb8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ config DRM_INGENIC
 	tristate "DRM Support for Ingenic SoCs"
 	depends on MIPS || COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on DRM
-	depends on CMA
 	depends on OF
 	depends on COMMON_CLK
 	select DRM_BRIDGE
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig
index 71c689b573c9..217d54c4babc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/Kconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 config DRM_MCDE
 	tristate "DRM Support for ST-Ericsson MCDE (Multichannel Display Engine)"
 	depends on DRM
-	depends on CMA
 	depends on ARM || COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on OF
 	depends on COMMON_CLK
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig
index e2d163c74ed6..d04b7322c770 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tve200/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 config DRM_TVE200
 	tristate "DRM Support for Faraday TV Encoder TVE200"
 	depends on DRM
-	depends on CMA
 	depends on ARM || COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on OF
 	select DRM_BRIDGE
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index 4f02db65dede..e8acd4f77d41 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ config FB_HYPERV
 	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
 	select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
 	select FB_DEFERRED_IO
-	select DMA_CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA
+	select WANT_DMA_CMA
 	help
 	  This framebuffer driver supports Microsoft Hyper-V Synthetic Video.
 
diff --git a/kernel/dma/Kconfig b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
index 77b405508743..928f16d2461d 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
@@ -103,8 +103,15 @@ config DMA_DIRECT_REMAP
 	select DMA_REMAP
 	select DMA_COHERENT_POOL
 
+config WANT_DMA_CMA
+	bool
+	help
+	  Drivers should "select" this option if they desire to use the
+	  DMA_CMA mechanism.
+
 config DMA_CMA
 	bool "DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator"
+	default y if WANT_DMA_CMA
 	depends on HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA
 	help
 	  This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows drivers
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 24c045b24b95..169598ee56b1 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ config FRONTSWAP
 
 config CMA
 	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
+	default y if WANT_DMA_CMA
 	depends on MMU
 	select MIGRATION
 	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
-- 
2.30.2



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