linux-kernel - Re: iommu dma mapping alignment requirements

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:49:45 -0600
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	benh@....ibm.com
CC:	benh@...abs.au.ibm.com, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	OpenFabrics General <general@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bherren@....ibm.com>,
	Wen Xiong <wenxiong@...ibm.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <pmac@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: iommu dma mapping alignment requirements



Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> Sounds good.  Thanks!
>>
>> Note, that these smaller sub-host-page-sized mappings might pollute the 
>> address space causing full aligned host-page-size maps to become 
>> scarce...  Maybe there's a clever way to keep those in their own segment 
>> of the address space?
> 
> We already have a large vs. small split in the iommu virtual space to
> alleviate this (though it's not a hard constraint, we can still get
> into the "other" side if the default one is full).
> 
> Try that patch and let me know:

Seems to be working!

:)


> 
> Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c	2007-12-21 10:39:39.000000000 +1100
> +++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c	2007-12-21 10:46:18.000000000 +1100
> @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ int iommu_map_sg(struct iommu_table *tbl
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct scatterlist *s, *outs, *segstart;
>  	int outcount, incount, i;
> +	unsigned int align;
>  	unsigned long handle;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(direction == DMA_NONE);
> @@ -309,7 +310,11 @@ int iommu_map_sg(struct iommu_table *tbl
>  		/* Allocate iommu entries for that segment */
>  		vaddr = (unsigned long) sg_virt(s);
>  		npages = iommu_num_pages(vaddr, slen);
> -		entry = iommu_range_alloc(tbl, npages, &handle, mask >> IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
> +		align = 0;
> +		if (IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT && (vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)
> +			align = PAGE_SHIFT - IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT;
> +		entry = iommu_range_alloc(tbl, npages, &handle,
> +					  mask >> IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT, align);
>  
>  		DBG("  - vaddr: %lx, size: %lx\n", vaddr, slen);
>  
> @@ -572,7 +577,7 @@ dma_addr_t iommu_map_single(struct iommu
>  {
>  	dma_addr_t dma_handle = DMA_ERROR_CODE;
>  	unsigned long uaddr;
> -	unsigned int npages;
> +	unsigned int npages, align;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(direction == DMA_NONE);
>  
> @@ -580,8 +585,13 @@ dma_addr_t iommu_map_single(struct iommu
>  	npages = iommu_num_pages(uaddr, size);
>  
>  	if (tbl) {
> +		align = 0;
> +		if (IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT &&
> +		    ((unsigned long)vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)
> +			align = PAGE_SHIFT - IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
>  		dma_handle = iommu_alloc(tbl, vaddr, npages, direction,
> -					 mask >> IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
> +					 mask >> IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT, align);
>  		if (dma_handle == DMA_ERROR_CODE) {
>  			if (printk_ratelimit())  {
>  				printk(KERN_INFO "iommu_alloc failed, "
> 
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