Modify fw_cfg_read_blob() to use DMA if the device supports it.
Return errors, because the operation may fail.
So far, only one call in fw_cfg_register_dir_entries() is using
kmalloc'ed buf and is thus clearly eligible to DMA read.
Initially, I didn't implement DMA read to speed up boot time, but as a
first step before introducing DMA write (since read operations were
already presents). Even more, I didn't realize fw-cfg entries were
being read by the kernel during boot by default. But actally fw-cfg
entries are being populated during module probe. I knew DMA improved a
lot bios boot time (the main reason the DMA interface was added
afaik). Let see the time it would take to read the whole ACPI
tables (128kb allocated)
# time cat /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/etc/acpi/tables/raw
- with DMA: sys 0m0.003s
- without DMA (-global fw_cfg.dma_enabled=off): sys 0m7.674s
FW_CFG_FILE_DIR (0x19) is the only "file" that is read during kernel
boot to populate sysfs qemu_fw_cfg directory, and it is quite
small (1-2kb). Since it does not expose itself, in order to measure
the time it takes to read such small file, I took a comparable sized
file of 2048 bytes and exposed it (-fw_cfg test,file=file with a
modified read_raw enabling DMA)
# perf stat -r 100 cat /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/test/raw >/dev/null
- with DMA:
0.636037 task-clock (msec) # 0.141 CPUs utilized
( +- 1.19% )
- without DMA:
6.430128 task-clock (msec) # 0.622 CPUs utilized
( +- 0.22% )
That's a few msec saved during boot by enabling DMA read (the gain
would be more substantial if other & bigger fw-cfg entries are read by
others from sysfs, unfortunately, it's not clear if we can always
enable DMA there)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
---
drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index 3015e77aebca..94df57e9be66 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -124,12 +124,47 @@ static ssize_t fw_cfg_dma_transfer(void *address, u32
length, u32 control)
return ret;
}
+/* with acpi & dev locks taken */
+static ssize_t fw_cfg_read_blob_dma(u16 key,
+ void *buf, loff_t pos, size_t count)
+{
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ if (pos == 0) {
+ ret = fw_cfg_dma_transfer(buf, count, key << 16
+ | FW_CFG_DMA_CTL_SELECT
+ | FW_CFG_DMA_CTL_READ);
+ } else {
+ fw_cfg_sel_endianness(key);
+ ret = fw_cfg_dma_transfer(NULL, pos, FW_CFG_DMA_CTL_SKIP);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ ret = fw_cfg_dma_transfer(buf, count,
+ FW_CFG_DMA_CTL_READ);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/* with acpi & dev locks taken */
+static ssize_t fw_cfg_read_blob_io(u16 key,
+ void *buf, loff_t pos, size_t count)
+{
+ fw_cfg_sel_endianness(key);
+ while (pos-- > 0)
+ ioread8(fw_cfg_reg_data);
+ ioread8_rep(fw_cfg_reg_data, buf, count);
+ return count;
+}
+
/* read chunk of given fw_cfg blob (caller responsible for sanity-check) */
static ssize_t fw_cfg_read_blob(u16 key,
- void *buf, loff_t pos, size_t count)
+ void *buf, loff_t pos, size_t count,
+ bool dma)
{
u32 glk = -1U;
acpi_status status;
+ ssize_t ret;
/* If we have ACPI, ensure mutual exclusion against any potential
* device access by the firmware, e.g. via AML methods:
@@ -143,14 +178,17 @@ static ssize_t fw_cfg_read_blob(u16 key,
}
mutex_lock(&fw_cfg_dev_lock);
- fw_cfg_sel_endianness(key);
- while (pos-- > 0)
- ioread8(fw_cfg_reg_data);
- ioread8_rep(fw_cfg_reg_data, buf, count);
+ if (dma && fw_cfg_dma_enabled()) {
+ ret = fw_cfg_read_blob_dma(key, buf, pos, count);
+ } else {
+ ret = fw_cfg_read_blob_io(key, buf, pos, count);
+ }
+
mutex_unlock(&fw_cfg_dev_lock);
acpi_release_global_lock(glk);
- return count;
+
+ return ret;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_CORE
@@ -284,7 +322,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_do_platform_probe(struct platform_device
*pdev)
/* verify fw_cfg device signature */
if (fw_cfg_read_blob(FW_CFG_SIGNATURE, sig,
- 0, FW_CFG_SIG_SIZE) < 0 ||
+ 0, FW_CFG_SIG_SIZE, false) < 0 ||
memcmp(sig, "QEMU", FW_CFG_SIG_SIZE) != 0) {
fw_cfg_io_cleanup();
return -ENODEV;
@@ -468,7 +506,8 @@ static ssize_t fw_cfg_sysfs_read_raw(struct file *filp,
struct kobject *kobj,
if (count > entry->size - pos)
count = entry->size - pos;
- return fw_cfg_read_blob(entry->select, buf, pos, count);
+ /* do not use DMA, virt_to_phys(buf) might not be ok */
+ return fw_cfg_read_blob(entry->select, buf, pos, count, false);
}
static struct bin_attribute fw_cfg_sysfs_attr_raw = {
@@ -634,7 +673,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_dir_entries(void)
size_t dir_size;
ret = fw_cfg_read_blob(FW_CFG_FILE_DIR, &files_count,
- 0, sizeof(files_count));
+ 0, sizeof(files_count), false);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
@@ -646,7 +685,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_dir_entries(void)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = fw_cfg_read_blob(FW_CFG_FILE_DIR, dir,
- sizeof(files_count), dir_size);
+ sizeof(files_count), dir_size, false);
if (ret < 0)
goto end;
@@ -697,7 +736,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_sysfs_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_probe;
/* get revision number, add matching top-level attribute */
- err = fw_cfg_read_blob(FW_CFG_ID, &rev, 0, sizeof(rev));
+ err = fw_cfg_read_blob(FW_CFG_ID, &rev, 0, sizeof(rev), false);
if (err < 0)
goto err_probe;
--
2.16.1.73.g5832b7e9f2
