linux-kernel - Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

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Date:	Mon, 2 May 2011 13:26:09 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@...sung.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

On Monday 02 May 2011, David Brown wrote:
> I'll confirm this from the Qualcomm side as well.  You cannot have
> multiple inconsistent mappings of the same page without having difficult
> to find problems.

I believe Catalin was referring to the case where you have only
one nonconsistent (cacheable) mapping plus multiple consistent
(cacheable) mappings. I don't think anyone has suggested doing
DMA to a page that has multiple nonconsistent mappings with
virtually indexed caches.

> The spec clarifications appear to give ways of dealing with it if it
> happens, and bounds on what can go wrong, but I wouldn't call it
> something we want to do normally.  Corrupt data is arguably less of a
> problem than nasal demons, but still a problem.

Anything that has a theoretical chance of corrupting data is not an
option, but I'd really like to see what the clarified spec says
about this. Even if there is a way to legally leave a page for
dma_alloc_coherent in the linear mapping, it might turn out to
be harder to do than using highmem pages or unmapping supersections
at run time as was suggested.

	Arnd
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