linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] ARM: IOMMU: tegra: Add iommu_ops for GART/SMMU driver

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:39:48 +0900
From:	KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@...sung.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linaro-mm-sig-bounces@...ts.linaro.org" 
	<linaro-mm-sig-bounces@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] ARM: IOMMU: tegra: Add iommu_ops for GART/SMMU driver

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:17:18AM +0200, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
>> Just for DMA mapping test from MPU side, the following one is used.
>
> This patch is buggy.
>
>> +static void dmaapi_test_map_page(struct device *dev)
>> +{
>> +     struct page *page;
>> +     dma_addr_t dma_addr;
>> +     void *cpu_addr;
>> +
>> +     page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     BUG_ON(!page);
>> +
>> +     dma_addr = dma_map_page(dev, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>> +     BUG_ON(!dma_addr);
>> +
>> +     cpu_addr = kmap(page);
>> +     BUG_ON(!cpu_addr);
>> +     memset(cpu_addr, 0xa5, PAGE_SIZE);
>> +     kunmap(cpu_addr);
>
> The DMA API works like this:
>
> - The CPU owns the page or buffer and can access it.
> - You map the page or buffer.
> - The device owns the page or buffer; the CPU must explicitly access it.

I don't understand what  "CPU must __explicitly__ access it" means.

Do you mean that CPU must access the mapped buffer when
it __explicitly__ knows that the access does not cause any side effect?

> - You unmap the page or buffer.
> - The CPU again owns the page/buffer and can access it.
>
> Please respect the DMA API rules.
>
> So.  Once dma_map_page() has returned, you must not kmap() or otherwise
> access the data contained in that page until after you have unmapped it.
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