[PATCH 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for NOMMU
Vladimir Murzin
vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Tue Feb 21 04:27:45 PST 2017
Hi Robin,
On 21/02/17 12:16, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> On 21/02/17 10:41, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> Gentle ping!
>
> What's your plan for this series? Are you looking for acks on the common
> parts to take it through the ARM tree, or Russell's ack on the ARM parts
> for it to go through mm?
Nothing particular in my mind - either way would work me. So far I have not
heard feedback on common parts and it is not clear to me who should give Ack
on them :(
>
> Either way, I expect the merge window is probably consuming most folks'
> attention just now.
I see.
Cheers
Vladimir
>
> Robin.
>
>> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel at suse.de>
>> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>
>> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
>> Cc: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
>> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>
>> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc.org>
>> Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>>
>> On 15/02/17 09:59, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seem that addition of cache support for M-class CPUs uncovered
>>> latent bug in DMA usage. NOMMU memory model has been treated as being
>>> always consistent; however, for R/M CPU classes memory can be covered
>>> by MPU which in turn might configure RAM as Normal i.e. bufferable and
>>> cacheable. It breaks dma_alloc_coherent() and friends, since data can
>>> stuck in caches now or be buffered.
>>>
>>> This patch set is trying to address the issue by providing region of
>>> memory suitable for consistent DMA operations. It is supposed that
>>> such region is marked by MPU as non-cacheable. Robin suggested to
>>> advertise such memory as reserved shared-dma-pool, rather then using
>>> homebrew command line option, and extend dma-coherent to provide
>>> default DMA area in the similar way as it is done for CMA (PATCH
>>> 4/7). It allows us to offload all bookkeeping on generic coherent DMA
>>> framework, and it seems that it might be reused by other architectures
>>> like c6x and blackfin.
>>>
>>> While reviewing/testing previous vesrions of the patch set it turned
>>> out that dma-coherent does not take into account "dma-ranges" device
>>> tree property, so it is addressed in PATCH 3/7.
>>>
>>> For ARM, dedicated DMA region is required for cases other than:
>>> - MMU/MPU is off
>>> - cpu is v7m w/o cache support
>>> - device is coherent
>>>
>>> In case one of the above conditions is true dma operations are forced
>>> to be coherent and wired with dma_noop_ops.
>>>
>>> To make life easier NOMMU dma operations are kept in separate
>>> compilation unit.
>>>
>>> Since the issue was reported in the same time as Benjamin sent his
>>> patch [1] to allow mmap for NOMMU, his case is also addressed in this
>>> series (PATCH 1/7 and PATCH 2/7).
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8633/1
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>> RFC v6 -> v1
>>> - dropped RFC tag
>>> - added Alexandre's Tested-by
>>>
>>> Vladimir Murzin (7):
>>> dma: Take into account dma_pfn_offset
>>> dma: Add simple dma_noop_mmap
>>> drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when used with device
>>> tree
>>> drivers: dma-coherent: Introduce default DMA pool
>>> ARM: NOMMU: Introduce dma operations for noMMU
>>> ARM: NOMMU: Set ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE for M-class cpus
>>> ARM: dma-mapping: Remove traces of NOMMU code
>>>
>>> .../bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt | 3 +
>>> arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 3 +-
>>> arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>> arch/arm/mm/Makefile | 5 +-
>>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c | 253 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 26 +--
>>> drivers/base/dma-coherent.c | 76 ++++++-
>>> lib/dma-noop.c | 29 ++-
>>> 8 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>>>
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