linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for NOMMU

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:41:49 +0000
From:   Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        robin.murphy@....com, kbuild-all@...org, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        jroedel@...e.de, borntraeger@...ibm.com, mina86@...a86.com,
        m.szyprowski@...sung.com, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
        ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp, dalias@...c.org, rogerq@...com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for NOMMU

Gentle ping!

Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

On 15/02/17 09:59, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seem that addition of cache support for M-class CPUs uncovered
> latent bug in DMA usage. NOMMU memory model has been treated as being
> always consistent; however, for R/M CPU classes memory can be covered
> by MPU which in turn might configure RAM as Normal i.e. bufferable and
> cacheable. It breaks dma_alloc_coherent() and friends, since data can
> stuck in caches now or be buffered.
> 
> This patch set is trying to address the issue by providing region of
> memory suitable for consistent DMA operations. It is supposed that
> such region is marked by MPU as non-cacheable. Robin suggested to
> advertise such memory as reserved shared-dma-pool, rather then using
> homebrew command line option, and extend dma-coherent to provide
> default DMA area in the similar way as it is done for CMA (PATCH
> 4/7). It allows us to offload all bookkeeping on generic coherent DMA
> framework, and it seems that it might be reused by other architectures
> like c6x and blackfin.
> 
> While reviewing/testing previous vesrions of the patch set it turned
> out that dma-coherent does not take into account "dma-ranges" device
> tree property, so it is addressed in PATCH 3/7.
> 
> For ARM, dedicated DMA region is required for cases other than:
>  - MMU/MPU is off
>  - cpu is v7m w/o cache support
>  - device is coherent
> 
> In case one of the above conditions is true dma operations are forced
> to be coherent and wired with dma_noop_ops.
> 
> To make life easier NOMMU dma operations are kept in separate
> compilation unit.
> 
> Since the issue was reported in the same time as Benjamin sent his
> patch [1] to allow mmap for NOMMU, his case is also addressed in this
> series (PATCH 1/7 and PATCH 2/7).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8633/1
> 
> Changelog:
> 	RFC v6 -> v1
> 	       - dropped RFC tag
> 	       - added Alexandre's Tested-by
> 
> Vladimir Murzin (7):
>   dma: Take into account dma_pfn_offset
>   dma: Add simple dma_noop_mmap
>   drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when used with device
>     tree
>   drivers: dma-coherent: Introduce default DMA pool
>   ARM: NOMMU: Introduce dma operations for noMMU
>   ARM: NOMMU: Set ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE for M-class cpus
>   ARM: dma-mapping: Remove traces of NOMMU code
> 
>  .../bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt   |   3 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h                 |   3 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                                |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/Makefile                               |   5 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c                    | 253 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c                          |  26 +--
>  drivers/base/dma-coherent.c                        |  76 ++++++-
>  lib/dma-noop.c                                     |  29 ++-
>  8 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>