[RFC PATCH 09/11] drivers: acpi: implement acpi_dma_configure

Tomasz Nowicki tn at semihalf.com
Mon May 16 08:26:03 PDT 2016



On 16.05.2016 17:15, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> On 18.04.2016 12:43, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 15/04/16 19:29, Timur Tabi wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
>>> <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
>>>> +void acpi_dma_configure(struct device *dev, enum dev_dma_attr attr)
>>>> +{
>>>> +       struct iommu_ops *iommu;
>>>> +
>>>> +       iommu = iort_iommu_configure(dev);
>>>> +
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * Assume dma valid range starts at 0 and covers the whole
>>>> +        * coherent_dma_mask.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       arch_setup_dma_ops(dev, 0, dev->coherent_dma_mask + 1, iommu,
>>>> +                          attr == DEV_DMA_COHERENT);
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> I have a network driver that is impacted by this code, so thank you
>>> for posting this. (See
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg106249.html).
>>>
>>> One one SOC, the driver needs to set the mask to 32 bits.  On another
>>> SOC, it needs to set it to 64 bits.  On device tree, the driver will
>>> use dma-ranges.
>>
>> That's the wrong way to look at it - the driver isn't _using_
>> dma-ranges, you're merely relying on the OF code setting the _default_
>> DMA mask differently based on the property. If your driver is in the
>> minority of those which actually care about DMA masks, then it should be
>> calling dma_set_mask_and_coherent() appropriately and not relying on the
>> default.
>
> I don't see the clear strategy for setting DMA mask as well.
>
> Lets consider DT boot method example:
> 1. SMMUv2 supports 48bit translation and 1:1 address map
> dma-ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x00010000 0x0>;
> and we are adding PCI device:
>
> pci_device_add -> DMA_BIT_MASK(32) by default
>    pci_dma_configure
>      of_dma_configure -> reads dma-ranges and calculates 48bit DMA mask,
> but it picks minimum, we stay with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
>
> now PCI dev turns out to be e1000e NIC:
> e1000_probe
>    dma_set_mask_and_coherent -> tries to set DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
>      dma_set_mask -> there is no set_dma_mask ops for SMMUv2 so we let

Sorry, there is no .set_dma_mask ops for ARM64 (not SMMUv2)

Tomasz



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