linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu/mediatek: Add mt8173 IOMMU driver

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:31:48 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:	Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"pebolle@...cali.nl" <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"srv_heupstream@...iatek.com" <srv_heupstream@...iatek.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...gle.com>,
	"iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	"cloud.chou@...iatek.com" <cloud.chou@...iatek.com>,
	"linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"frederic.chen@...iatek.com" <frederic.chen@...iatek.com>,
	"mitchelh@...eaurora.org" <mitchelh@...eaurora.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu/mediatek: Add mt8173 IOMMU driver

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:23:26PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 16/07/15 10:04, Yong Wu wrote:
> >This patch adds support for mediatek m4u (MultiMedia Memory Management
> >Unit).
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>
> [...]
> >+static void mtk_iommu_flush_pgtable(void *ptr, size_t size, void *cookie)
> >+{
> >+       struct mtk_iommu_domain *domain = cookie;
> >+       unsigned long offset = (unsigned long)ptr & ~PAGE_MASK;
> >+
> >+       dma_map_page(domain->data->dev, virt_to_page(ptr), offset,
> >+                    size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> 
> Nit: this looks like it may as well be dma_map_single.
> 
> It would probably be worth following it with a matching unmap too, just to
> avoid any possible leakage bugs (especially if this M4U ever appears in a
> SoC supporting RAM above the 32-bit boundary).

Why not do the job properly?  Take a look at how I implemented the
streaming DMA API on Tegra SMMU (patch set recently sent out earlier
today).

There's no need for hacks like dma_map_page() (and discarding it's
return value) or dma_map_page() followed by dma_unmap_page().

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