[PATCH v5 11/13] xen: introduce xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Thu Sep 12 10:44:50 EDT 2013


On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 06:34:17PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > >  static inline void set_dma_ops(struct device *dev, struct dma_map_ops *ops)
> > >  {
> > >  	BUG_ON(!dev);
> > > @@ -32,7 +39,7 @@ static inline void set_dma_ops(struct device *dev, struct dma_map_ops *ops)
> > >  
> > >  static inline int dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
> > >  {
> > > -	return get_dma_ops(dev)->set_dma_mask(dev, mask);
> > > +	return __get_dma_ops(dev)->set_dma_mask(dev, mask);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  #ifdef __arch_page_to_dma
> > 
> > I don't understand the reason for this change though: shouldn't
> > set_dma_mask go via the "default" (whatever that is), like the others?
> 
> Under Xen, this would mean xen_dma_ops->set_dma_mask(). I thought you
> want to set the default dma address.
> 
> I can see why you may want set_dma_mask() for xen_dma_ops but in also
> needs to be passed to __get_dma_ops(dev)->set_dma_ops() otherwise the
> actual dma_alloc_attrs() will miss the mask (and on arm64 it does
> bouncing via swiotlb).
 
xen_dma_ops->set_dma_mask() is implemented by
drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c:xen_swiotlb_set_dma_mask (provided by this
patch series). The function takes care of setting:

*dev->dma_mask = dma_mask;

I think that should be enough to make dma_alloc_attrs happy.



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