linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:48:20 +0200
From:	Niklas Söderlund 
	<niklas.soderlund@...natech.se>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, robin.murphy@....com,
	geert+renesas@...der.be, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}_resource

Hi Christoph,

Have you had time to look at the audit? Is there anything else I can do 
make progress on this?

On 2016-04-13 15:29:16 +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On 2016-03-21 08:26:01 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:33:51PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > The good news is that, given that no code uses this new API at the moment, 
> > > there isn't much to audit. The patch series implements the resource mapping 
> > > for arch/arm only, and makes use of it in the rcar-dmac driver only. Would you 
> > > like anything audited else than the arch/arm dma mapping implementation, the 
> > > rcar-dmac driver and the code that then deals with the dma addresses (I'm 
> > > thinking about the IOMMU subsystem and the ipmmu-vmsa driver in particular) ?
> > 
> > Yes, it would be good to do an audit of all the ARM dma_ops as well
> > as generic code like drivers/base/dma-*.c, lib/dma-debug.c and
> > include/linux/dma-*.h
> 
> I have now done an audit to the best of my abilities, thanks to Laurent 
> for pointing me in the right direction. And from what I can tell we are 
> good.
> 
> * drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
>   Once the phys_addr_t is mapped to a dma_addr_t using 
>   dma_map_resource() it is only used to check that the transfere do not 
>   cross 4GB boundaries and then only directly written to HW registers.
> 
> * drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>   - iommu_map()
>     Check that it's align to min page size or return -EINVAL then calls
>     domain->ops->map()
> 
> * drivers/iommu/ipmmu-vmsa.c
>   - ipmmu_map()
>     No logic only calls domain->ops->map()
> 
> * drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
>   - arm_lpae_map()
>     No logic only calls __arm_lpae_map()
>   - __arm_lpae_map()
>     No logic only calls arm_lpae_init_pte()
>   - arm_lpae_init_pte()
>     Used to get a pte:
>       pte |= pfn_to_iopte(paddr >> data->pg_shift, data);
> 
> * drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
>   - arm_v7s_map()
>     No logic only calls __arm_v7s_map()
>   - __arm_v7s_map()
>     No logic only calls arm_v7s_init_pte()
>   - arm_v7s_init_pte
>     Used to get a pte:
>       pte |= paddr & ARM_V7S_LVL_MASK(lvl);
> 
> * ARM dma-mapping
>   - dma_unmap_*
>     Only valid unmap is dma_unmap_resource() all others are an invalid 
>     use case.
>   - dma_sync_single_*
>     Invalid use case, memmory that is mapped is device memmory
>   - dma_common_mmap() and dma_mmap_attrs()
>     Invalid use case
>   - dma_common_get_sgtable() and dma_get_sgtable_attrs()
>     Invalid use case, only for dma_alloc_* allocated memory,
>   - dma_mapping_error()
>     OK

-- 
Regards,
Niklas Söderlund