[PATCH] arm64/dma-mapping: Add DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES support
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Mar 21 11:01:47 PDT 2016
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 02:54:26AM +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
> Sometimes it is not worth for the iommu allocating big chunks.
> Here we enable DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES which could help avoid to
> allocate big chunks while iommu allocating buffer.
>
> More information about this attribute, please check Doug's commit[1].
>
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/720
>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> Suggested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu at mediatek.com>
> ---
>
> Our video drivers may soon use this.
>
> arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> include/linux/dma-iommu.h | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 331c4ca..3225e3ca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ static void *__iommu_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> struct page **pages;
> pgprot_t prot = __get_dma_pgprot(attrs, PAGE_KERNEL, coherent);
>
> - pages = iommu_dma_alloc(dev, iosize, gfp, ioprot, handle,
> - flush_page);
> + pages = iommu_dma_alloc(dev, iosize, gfp, ioprot, attrs,
> + handle, flush_page);
> if (!pages)
> return NULL;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> index 72d6182..3569cb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> @@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ static void __iommu_dma_free_pages(struct page **pages, int count)
> kvfree(pages);
> }
>
> -static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(unsigned int count, gfp_t gfp)
> +static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(unsigned int count, gfp_t gfp,
> + struct dma_attrs *attrs)
> {
> struct page **pages;
> unsigned int i = 0, array_size = count * sizeof(*pages);
> @@ -203,6 +204,10 @@ static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(unsigned int count, gfp_t gfp)
> if (!pages)
> return NULL;
>
> + /* Go straight to 4K chunks if caller says it's OK. */
> + if (dma_get_attr(DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES, attrs))
> + order = 0;
I have a slight snag with this, in that you don't consult the IOMMU
pgsize_bitmap at any point, and assume that it can map pages at the
same granularity as the CPU. The documentation for
DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES seems to be weaker than that.
Will
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