[PATCH v3 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for NOMMU

[Szemző András]

I’ve tested this v3 version on my Atmel armv7m board with several drivers with DMA and enabled caches,
and I’ve not seen any issues.

You can add my Tested-by.

Thanks for the patches!

Andras 

> On 2017. Mar 16., at 10:03, Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Gentle ping!
> 
> On 10/03/17 09:23, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 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>
>> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
>> 
>> Changelog:
>> 	    v2 -> v3
>> 	       - fixed warnings reported by Alexandre and kbuild robot
>> 
>> 	    v1 -> v2
>> 	       - rebased on v4.11-rc1
>> 	       - added Robin's Reviewed-by
>> 	       - dedicated flag is introduced to use dev->dma_pfn_offset
>> 	         rather than mem->device_base in case memory region is
>> 		 configured via device tree (so Tested-by discarded there)
>> 
>> 	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/Kconfig                                   |   1 +
>> arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h                 |   2 +-
>> arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                                |   2 +-
>> arch/arm/mm/Makefile                               |   5 +-
>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c                    | 253 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c                          |  29 +--
>> drivers/base/dma-coherent.c                        |  74 +++++-
>> lib/dma-noop.c                                     |  29 ++-
>> 9 files changed, 354 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>> 
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