linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: Add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:36:21 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: Add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS

Hi Robin,

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
> On 13/01/17 11:59, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
>>> On 13/01/17 11:07, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> Add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS to the generic IOMMU DMA code.
>>>> This allows to allocate physically contiguous DMA buffers on arm64
>>>> systems with an IOMMU.
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain what this attribute is actually used for? I've never
>>> quite figured it out.
>>
>> My understanding is that DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS is needed when using
>> an IOMMU but wanting the buffers to be both contiguous in IOVA space and
>> physically contiguous to allow passing to devices without IOMMU.
>>
>> Main users are graphic and remote processors.
>
> Sure, I assumed it must be to do with buffer sharing, but the systems
> I'm aware of which have IOMMUs in their media subsystems tend to have
> them in front of every IP block involved, so I was curious as to what
> bit of non-IOMMU hardware wanted to play too. The lone in-tree use in
> the Exynos DRM driver was never very revealing, and the new one I see in
> the Qualcomm PIL driver frankly looks redundant to me.

I'll let the GPU-literate people comment on that...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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