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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1410241751160.22875@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:01:12 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"Ian.Campbell@...rix.com" <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	"david.vrabel@...rix.com" <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] [RFC] arm/arm64: introduce is_dma_coherent

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:39:59PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > I think a better way would be some Xen hook around
> > > set_arch_dma_coherent_ops(). Does Xen have its own device tracking
> > > structures? If not, you may be able to add another bitfield to the
> > > kernel one.
> > 
> > We don't have an additional device tracking struct on Xen.
> > I agree that a new bit somewhere would be the best solution, but I am
> > not sure where. Maybe in dev_archdata under arm and arm64? After all it
> > is already used to keep pointers to dma and coherency related
> > structures.
> 
> I was thinking about something like below (maybe with some additional
> ARCH_HAS_NONCOHERENT_DMA config for architectures that are always
> coherent):
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index 3b64d0bf5bba..ae399ccbd569 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ static void of_dma_configure(struct device *dev)
>  	 * dma coherent operations.
>  	 */
>  	if (of_dma_is_coherent(dev->of_node)) {
> +		dev->dma_coherent = 1;
>  		set_arch_dma_coherent_ops(dev);
>  		dev_dbg(dev, "device is dma coherent\n");
>  	}
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index ce1f21608b16..e00ca876db01 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ struct device {
>  
>  	bool			offline_disabled:1;
>  	bool			offline:1;
> +	bool			dma_coherent:1;
>  };
>  
>  static inline struct device *kobj_to_dev(struct kobject *kobj)
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> index d5d388160f42..9c9ba5a5428e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ static inline int is_device_dma_capable(struct device *dev)
>  	return dev->dma_mask != NULL && *dev->dma_mask != DMA_MASK_NONE;
>  }
>  
> +static inline int is_device_dma_coherent(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +	return dev->dma_coherent;
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DMA
>  #include <asm/dma-mapping.h>
>  #else

This is probably the cleanest option. I am going to send it out and see
what the comments are.

I might still be able to request a backport if it doesn't make 3.18.


> > However given the timing constraints I hope you would be OK with the
> > suboptimal solution for now and create a common is_dma_coherent function
> > in 3.19?
> 
> If you want to push something for 3.18, you could have a temporary
> solution but I would prefer a bool or something in the dev_archdata
> structure. Another untested patch:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/device.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/device.h
> index cf98b362094b..243ef256b8c9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/device.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/device.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct dev_archdata {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_API
>  	void *iommu;			/* private IOMMU data */
>  #endif
> +	bool dma_coherent;
>  };
>  
>  struct pdev_archdata {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> index adeae3f6f0fc..b6bc4c268878 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -54,11 +54,17 @@ static inline void set_dma_ops(struct device *dev, struct dma_map_ops *ops)
>  
>  static inline int set_arch_dma_coherent_ops(struct device *dev)
>  {
> +	dev->dev_archdata.dma_coherent = true;
>  	set_dma_ops(dev, &coherent_swiotlb_dma_ops);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  #define set_arch_dma_coherent_ops	set_arch_dma_coherent_ops
>  
> +static inline int is_device_dma_coherent(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +	return dev->dev_archdata.dma_coherent;
> +}
> +
>  #include <asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h>
>  
>  static inline dma_addr_t phys_to_dma(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t paddr)
> 
> 
> This way you don't have to test for swiotlb vs iommu ops (we don't have
> the latter yet on arm64 but they are coming).
> 
> -- 
> Catalin
> 
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