[RFC PATCH v3 3/5] ARM: NOMMU: Introduce dma operations for noMMU

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Mon Jan 9 08:51:21 PST 2017


Hi Robin,

On 09/01/17 16:43, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On 09/01/17 13:47, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> R/M classes of cpus can have memory 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 factors out DMA support for NOMMU configuration into
>> separate entity which provides dedicated dma_ops. We have to handle
>> there several cases:
>> - configurations with MMU/MPU setup
>> - configurations without MMU/MPU setup
>> - special case for M-class, since caches and MPU there are optional
>>
>> In general we rely on default DMA area for coherent allocations or/and
>> per-device memory reserves suitable for coherent DMA, so if such
>> regions are set coherent allocations go from there.
>>
>> In case MPU/MPU was not setup we fallback to normal page allocator for
>> DMA memory allocation.
>>
>> In case we run M-class cpus, for configuration without cache support
>> (like Cortex-M3/M4) dma operations are forced to be coherent and wired
>> with dma-noop (such decision is made based on cacheid global
>> variable); however, if caches are detected there and no DMA coherent
>> region is given (either default or per-device), dma is disallowed even
>> MPU is not set - it is because M-class implement system memory map
>> which defines part of address space as Normal memory.
>>
>> Reported-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue at st.com>
>> Reported-by: Andras Szemzo <sza at esh.hu>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h |   3 +-
>>  arch/arm/mm/Makefile               |   5 +-
>>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c    | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> index bf02dbd..559faad 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ static inline struct dma_map_ops *__generic_dma_ops(struct device *dev)
>>  {
>>  	if (dev && dev->archdata.dma_ops)
>>  		return dev->archdata.dma_ops;
>> -	return &arm_dma_ops;
>> +
>> +	return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU) ? &arm_dma_ops : &dma_noop_ops;
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline struct dma_map_ops *get_dma_ops(struct device *dev)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Makefile b/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
>> index 2ac7988..5796357 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
>> @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
>>  # Makefile for the linux arm-specific parts of the memory manager.
>>  #
>>  
>> -obj-y				:= dma-mapping.o extable.o fault.o init.o \
>> -				   iomap.o
>> -
>> +obj-y				:= extable.o fault.o init.o iomap.o
>> +obj-y				+= dma-mapping$(MMUEXT).o
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_MMU)		+= fault-armv.o flush.o idmap.o ioremap.o \
>>  				   mmap.o pgd.o mmu.o pageattr.o
>>  
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..a5c50fb
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
>> +/*
>> + *  Based on linux/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> + *
>> + *  Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Russell King
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <linux/export.h>
>> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>> +#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>> +#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
>> +
>> +#include <asm/cachetype.h>
>> +#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>> +#include <asm/outercache.h>
>> +#include <asm/cp15.h>
>> +
>> +#include "dma.h"
>> +
>> +/*
>> + *  dma_noop_ops is used if
>> + *   - MMU/MPU is off
>> + *   - cpu is v7m w/o cache support
>> + *   - device is coherent
>> + *  otherwise arm_nommu_dma_ops is used.
>> + *
>> + *  arm_nommu_dma_ops rely on consistent DMA memory (please, refer to
>> + *  [1] on how to declare such memory).
>> + *
>> + *  [1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
>> + */
>> +
>> +static void *arm_nommu_dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
>> +				 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t gfp,
>> +				 unsigned long attrs)
>> +
>> +{
>> +	struct dma_map_ops *ops = &dma_noop_ops;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * We are here because:
>> +	 * - no consistent DMA region has been defined, so we can't
>> +	 *   continue.
>> +	 * - there is no space left in consistent DMA region, so we
>> +	 *   only can fallback to generic allocator if we are
>> +	 *   advertised that consistency is not required.
>> +	 */
>> +
>> +	if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT)
>> +		return ops->alloc(dev, size, dma_handle, gfp, attrs);
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>> +	return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_free(struct device *dev, size_t size,
>> +			       void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
>> +			       unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	struct dma_map_ops *ops = &dma_noop_ops;
>> +
>> +	if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT)
>> +		ops->free(dev, size, cpu_addr, dma_addr, attrs);
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>> +	return;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int arm_nommu_dma_mmap(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> +			      void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size,
>> +			      unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	struct dma_map_ops *ops = &dma_noop_ops;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	if (dma_mmap_from_coherent(dev, vma, cpu_addr, size, &ret))
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT)
>> +		return ops->mmap(dev, vma, cpu_addr, dma_addr, size, attrs);
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>> +	return -ENXIO;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void __dma_page_cpu_to_dev(dma_addr_t handle, size_t size,
>> +				  enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	dmac_unmap_area(__va(handle), size, dir);
>> +
>> +	if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE)
>> +		outer_inv_range(handle, handle + size);
>> +	else
>> +		outer_clean_range(handle, handle + size);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void __dma_page_dev_to_cpu(dma_addr_t handle, size_t size,
>> +				  enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE) {
>> +		outer_inv_range(handle, handle + size);
>> +		dmac_unmap_area(__va(handle), size, dir);
>> +	}
>> +}
> 
> Nit: I appreciate that the situation here makes it OK by construction,
> but CPU cache maintenance on a DMA address just looks *so* wrong :)
> Could we pass either the "virtual" or physical version of the address as
> the argument to these helpers so that the code looks less crazy at a glance?

Something like bellow?

static void __dma_page_dev_to_cpu(dma_addr_t paddr, size_t size,
				  enum dma_data_direction dir)
{
	if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE) {
		outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
		dmac_unmap_area(__va(paddr), size, dir);
	}

Btw, thanks for having a look!

Cheers
Vladimir

> 
> Robin.
> 
>> +static dma_addr_t arm_nommu_dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
>> +					 unsigned long offset, size_t size,
>> +					 enum dma_data_direction dir,
>> +					 unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	dma_addr_t handle = page_to_phys(page) + offset;
>> +
>> +	__dma_page_cpu_to_dev(handle, size, dir);
>> +
>> +	return handle;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t handle,
>> +				     size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
>> +				     unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	__dma_page_dev_to_cpu(handle, size, dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +
>> +static int arm_nommu_dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>> +				int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
>> +				unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +	struct scatterlist *sg;
>> +
>> +	for_each_sg(sgl, sg, nents, i) {
>> +		sg_dma_address(sg) = sg_phys(sg);
>> +		sg_dma_len(sg) = sg->length;
>> +		__dma_page_cpu_to_dev(sg_dma_address(sg), sg_dma_len(sg), dir);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return nents;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>> +				   int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
>> +				   unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	struct scatterlist *sg;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for_each_sg(sgl, sg, nents, i)
>> +		__dma_page_dev_to_cpu(sg_dma_address(sg), sg_dma_len(sg), dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev,
>> +		dma_addr_t handle, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	__dma_page_cpu_to_dev(handle, size, dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
>> +		dma_addr_t handle, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	__dma_page_cpu_to_dev(handle, size, dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>> +					     int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	struct scatterlist *sg;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for_each_sg(sgl, sg, nents, i)
>> +		__dma_page_cpu_to_dev(sg_dma_address(sg), sg_dma_len(sg), dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arm_nommu_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>> +					  int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +	struct scatterlist *sg;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for_each_sg(sgl, sg, nents, i)
>> +		__dma_page_dev_to_cpu(sg_dma_address(sg), sg_dma_len(sg), dir);
>> +}
>> +
>> +struct dma_map_ops arm_nommu_dma_ops = {
>> +	.alloc			= arm_nommu_dma_alloc,
>> +	.free			= arm_nommu_dma_free,
>> +	.mmap			= arm_nommu_dma_mmap,
>> +	.map_page		= arm_nommu_dma_map_page,
>> +	.unmap_page		= arm_nommu_dma_unmap_page,
>> +	.map_sg			= arm_nommu_dma_map_sg,
>> +	.unmap_sg		= arm_nommu_dma_unmap_sg,
>> +	.sync_single_for_device	= arm_nommu_dma_sync_single_for_device,
>> +	.sync_single_for_cpu	= arm_nommu_dma_sync_single_for_cpu,
>> +	.sync_sg_for_device	= arm_nommu_dma_sync_sg_for_device,
>> +	.sync_sg_for_cpu	= arm_nommu_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu,
>> +};
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(arm_nommu_dma_ops);
>> +
>> +static struct dma_map_ops *arm_nommu_get_dma_map_ops(bool coherent)
>> +{
>> +	return coherent ? &dma_noop_ops : &arm_nommu_dma_ops;
>> +}
>> +
>> +void arch_setup_dma_ops(struct device *dev, u64 dma_base, u64 size,
>> +			const struct iommu_ops *iommu, bool coherent)
>> +{
>> +	struct dma_map_ops *dma_ops;
>> +
>> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_V7M)) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Cache support for v7m is optional, so can be treated as
>> +		 * coherent if no cache has been detected. Note that it is not
>> +		 * enough to check if MPU is in use or not since in absense of
>> +		 * MPU system memory map is used.
>> +		 */
>> +		dev->archdata.dma_coherent = (cacheid) ? coherent : true;
>> +	} else {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Assume coherent DMA in case MMU/MPU has not been set up.
>> +		 */
>> +		dev->archdata.dma_coherent = (get_cr() & CR_M) ? coherent : true;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	dma_ops = arm_nommu_get_dma_map_ops(dev->archdata.dma_coherent);
>> +
>> +	set_dma_ops(dev, dma_ops);
>> +}
>> +
>> +void arch_teardown_dma_ops(struct device *dev)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>> +int dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
>> +{
>> +	return 1;
>> +}
>> +
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_supported);
>> +
>> +#define PREALLOC_DMA_DEBUG_ENTRIES	4096
>> +
>> +static int __init dma_debug_do_init(void)
>> +{
>> +	dma_debug_init(PREALLOC_DMA_DEBUG_ENTRIES);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +core_initcall(dma_debug_do_init);
>>
> 
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