[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH][RFC] arm: dma-mapping: Add support for allocating/mapping cached buffers
Laura Abbott
lauraa at codeaurora.org
Mon Jul 16 21:06:49 EDT 2012
On 7/14/2012 6:53 AM, Clark, Rob wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> There are currently no dma allocation APIs that support cached
>> buffers. For some use cases, caching provides a signficiant
>> performance boost that beats write-combining regions. Add
>> apis to allocate and map a cached DMA region.
>
> btw, there were recent patches for allocating dma memory without a
> virtual mapping. With this you could map however you want to
> userspace (for example, cached)
>
> I'm assuming that you are not needing it to be mapped cached to kernel?
>
Thanks for reminding me about those patches. They don't quite solve the
problem as is for two reasons: 1) I'm looking at regular CMA
allocations, not iommu allocations which is what the patches covered 2)
I do actually need a kernel cached mapping in addition to the userspace
mappings.
I've obviously missed the last DMA rework patches, and I should
rebase/rework against those. Is another DMA attribute (DMA_ATTR_CACHED)
an acceptable option?
> BR,
> -R
>
Thanks,
Laura
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> index dc988ff..1565403 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> @@ -239,12 +239,33 @@ int dma_mmap_coherent(struct device *, struct vm_area_struct *,
>> extern void *dma_alloc_writecombine(struct device *, size_t, dma_addr_t *,
>> gfp_t);
>>
>> +/**
>> + * dma_alloc_cached - allocate cached memory for DMA
>> + * @dev: valid struct device pointer, or NULL for ISA and EISA-like devices
>> + * @size: required memory size
>> + * @handle: bus-specific DMA address
>> + *
>> + * Allocate some cached memory for a device for
>> + * performing DMA. This function allocates pages, and will
>> + * return the CPU-viewed address, and sets @handle to be the
>> + * device-viewed address.
>> + */
>> +extern void *dma_alloc_cached(struct device *, size_t, dma_addr_t *,
>> + gfp_t);
>> +
>> #define dma_free_writecombine(dev,size,cpu_addr,handle) \
>> dma_free_coherent(dev,size,cpu_addr,handle)
>>
>> +#define dma_free_cached(dev,size,cpu_addr,handle) \
>> + dma_free_coherent(dev,size,cpu_addr,handle)
>> +
>> int dma_mmap_writecombine(struct device *, struct vm_area_struct *,
>> void *, dma_addr_t, size_t);
>>
>> +
>> +int dma_mmap_cached(struct device *, struct vm_area_struct *,
>> + void *, dma_addr_t, size_t);
>> +
>> /*
>> * This can be called during boot to increase the size of the consistent
>> * DMA region above it's default value of 2MB. It must be called before the
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> index b1911c4..f396ddc 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> @@ -633,6 +633,20 @@ dma_alloc_writecombine(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle, gfp_
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_alloc_writecombine);
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Allocate a cached DMA region
>> + */
>> +void *
>> +dma_alloc_cached(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle, gfp_t gfp)
>> +{
>> + return __dma_alloc(dev, size, handle, gfp,
>> + pgprot_kernel,
>> + __builtin_return_address(0));
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_alloc_cached);
>> +
>> +
>> +
>> static int dma_mmap(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size)
>> {
>> @@ -664,6 +678,13 @@ int dma_mmap_writecombine(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_mmap_writecombine);
>>
>> +int dma_mmap_cached(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> + void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> + return dma_mmap(dev, vma, cpu_addr, dma_addr, size);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_mmap_cached);
>> +
>>
>> /*
>> * Free a buffer as defined by the above mapping.
>> --
>> 1.7.8.3
>>
>>
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