[PATCH 0/2] Fix incorrect warning from dma-debug

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Mon May 9 03:00:56 PDT 2016


On 09/05/16 10:37, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Niklas,
>
> On 08/05/16 11:59, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While using CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG i came across this warning which I
>> think is a false positive. As shown dma_sync_single_for_device() are
>> called from the dma_map_single() call path. This triggers the warning
>> since the dma-debug code have not yet been made aware of the mapping.
>
> Almost right ;) The thing being mapped (the SPI device's buffer) and the
> thing being synced (the IOMMU's PTE) are entirely unrelated. Due to the
> current of_iommu_init() setup, the IOMMU is probed long before
> dma_debug_init() gets called, therefore DMA debug is missing entries for
> some of the initial page table mappings and gets confused when we update
> them later.
>
>> I try to solve this by introducing __dma_sync_single_for_device() which
>> do not call into the dma-debug code. I'm no expert and this might be a
>> bad way of solving the problem but it allowed me to keep working.
>
> The simple fix should be to just call dma_debug_init() from a
> sufficiently earlier initcall level. The best would be to sort out a
> proper device dependency order to avoid the whole early-IOMMU-creation
> thing entirely.

A tangential idea, as Will just suggested to me, would be to make this 
false-positive situation more explicit, something like (untested):
---8<---
diff --git a/lib/dma-debug.c b/lib/dma-debug.c
index 4a1515f4b452..e16684a4ce86 100644
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ static bool dma_debug_initialized __read_mostly;

  static inline bool dma_debug_disabled(void)
  {
-	return global_disable || !dma_debug_initialized;
+	return global_disable || WARN_ONCE(!dma_debug_initialized,
+					   "early DMA-API call not tracked");
  }

  /* Global error count */
--->8---

but it seems like this a sufficiently rare case that it's probably not 
worth cluttering up the code for.

Robin.

>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at lib/dma-debug.c:1209 check_sync+0x154/0x5e4
>> ipmmu-vmsa e6740000.mmu: DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA
>> memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000006e89b008]
>> [size=8 bytes]
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
>> 4.6.0-rc5-00012-g52e78c1-dirty #1
>> Hardware name: Generic R8A7791 (Flattened Device Tree)
>> Backtrace:
>> [<c020a0a4>] (dump_backtrace) from [<c020a250>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
>>   r7:c03ebad0 r6:00000009 r5:60000093 r4:00000000
>> [<c020a238>] (show_stack) from [<c03cb7e4>] (dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
>> [<c03cb760>] (dump_stack) from [<c021e3ac>] (__warn+0xd0/0x100)
>>   r5:00000000 r4:ef05dac8
>> [<c021e2dc>] (__warn) from [<c021e41c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x48)
>>   r9:00010000 r8:00000000 r7:c0c69c40 r6:c0c02754 r5:ef05db78 r4:ef222810
>> [<c021e3e0>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c03ebad0>]
>> (check_sync+0x154/0x5e4)
>>   r3:c0945b6f r2:c0936e85
>> [<c03eb97c>] (check_sync) from [<c03ed594>]
>> (debug_dma_sync_single_for_device+0x64/0x70)
>>   r10:00000009 r9:0000000c r8:ee89b008 r7:00000000 r6:6e89b008
>> r5:00000000
>>   r4:6e89b008
>> [<c03ed530>] (debug_dma_sync_single_for_device) from [<c0465298>]
>> (__arm_lpae_set_pte.part.0+0x80/0x8c)
>>   r5:00000001 r4:ef222810
>> [<c0465218>] (__arm_lpae_set_pte.part.0) from [<c046553c>]
>> (__arm_lpae_map+0x298/0x2f0)
>>   r7:00000008 r6:ef25e000 r4:ee898500
>> [<c04652a4>] (__arm_lpae_map) from [<c0465b18>] (arm_lpae_map+0xcc/0xe4)
>>   r10:c0465f40 r9:00001000 r8:40000000 r7:00000000 r6:6f25c000
>> r5:00000000
>>   r4:000008c0
>> [<c0465a4c>] (arm_lpae_map) from [<c0465f78>] (ipmmu_map+0x38/0x40)
>>   r7:40000000 r6:00000000 r5:00001000 r4:c0465a4c
>> [<c0465f40>] (ipmmu_map) from [<c0463d90>] (iommu_map+0xf8/0x15c)
>>   r4:ee895608
>> [<c0463c98>] (iommu_map) from [<c0213524>]
>> (arm_coherent_iommu_map_page+0x1d4/0x2d4)
>>   r10:ef386940 r9:00001000 r8:00000000 r7:00000000 r6:40000000
>> r5:00000000
>>   r4:00000000
>> [<c0213350>] (arm_coherent_iommu_map_page) from [<c0213690>]
>> (arm_iommu_map_page+0x6c/0x74)
>>   r10:c0c61f44 r9:ef19d210 r8:00000001 r7:00001000 r6:00000000
>> r5:ec5ddb80
>>   r4:00000000
>> [<c0213624>] (arm_iommu_map_page) from [<c04f7d64>]
>> (sh_msiof_spi_probe+0x430/0x7b0)
>>   r9:00000000 r8:c0213624 r7:ef19d210 r6:ef242800 r5:ef1b4010 r4:ef242af0
>> [<c04f7934>] (sh_msiof_spi_probe) from [<c049fd3c>]
>> (platform_drv_probe+0x58/0xa8)
>>   r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:c0c1f8d4 r7:c0c7e910 r6:c0c1f8d4
>> r5:ef1b4010
>>   r4:c04f7934
>> [<c049fce4>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c049e788>]
>> (driver_probe_device+0x13c/0x2a4)
>>   r7:c0c7e910 r6:00000000 r5:c0c7e900 r4:ef1b4010
>> [<c049e64c>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c049e978>]
>> (__driver_attach+0x88/0xac)
>>   r9:c0c34000 r8:c0a3c010 r7:c0c1cf08 r6:c0c1f8d4 r5:ef1b4044 r4:ef1b4010
>> [<c049e8f0>] (__driver_attach) from [<c049ce44>]
>> (bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0x98)
>>   r7:c0c1cf08 r6:c049e8f0 r5:c0c1f8d4 r4:00000000
>> [<c049cdd0>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c049ebd0>]
>> (driver_attach+0x20/0x28)
>>   r6:ef1cc200 r5:00000000 r4:c0c1f8d4
>> [<c049ebb0>] (driver_attach) from [<c049d5d8>]
>> (bus_add_driver+0xd4/0x1e4)
>> [<c049d504>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c049f2dc>]
>> (driver_register+0xa4/0xe8)
>>   r7:c0a3c010 r6:00000000 r5:c0a1e400 r4:c0c1f8d4
>> [<c049f238>] (driver_register) from [<c04a0778>]
>> (__platform_driver_register+0x38/0x4c)
>>   r5:c0a1e400 r4:ee958fc0
>> [<c04a0740>] (__platform_driver_register) from [<c0a1e418>]
>> (sh_msiof_spi_drv_init+0x18/0x20)
>> [<c0a1e400>] (sh_msiof_spi_drv_init) from [<c0a00e1c>]
>> (do_one_initcall+0x10c/0x1c0)
>> [<c0a00d10>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0a00ff8>]
>> (kernel_init_freeable+0x128/0x1f4)
>>   r9:c0c34000 r8:c0c34000 r7:c0a47e60 r6:c0a3c83c r5:000000bd r4:00000006
>> [<c0a00ed0>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c071067c>]
>> (kernel_init+0x10/0x118)
>>   r9:00000000[    1.879529] ata1: link resume succeeded after 1 retries
>>   r8:00000000 r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:c071066c r4:00000000
>> [<c071066c>] (kernel_init) from [<c0206e08>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
>>   r5:c071066c r4:00000000
>> ---[ end trace 6eb9a3df3009d491 ]---
>>
>> Niklas Söderlund (2):
>>    dma-mapping: add __dma_sync_single_for_device()
>>    iommu/io-pgtable-arm: use __dma_sync_single_for_device()
>>
>>   drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 2 +-
>>   include/linux/dma-mapping.h    | 9 ++++++++-
>>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.8.2
>>
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