linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:03:35 +0000
From:   Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, kbuild-all@...org,
        benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        robin.murphy@....com, sza@....hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for
 NOMMU

Gentle ping!

On 10/03/17 09:23, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
> 
> Changelog:
> 	    v2 -> v3
> 	       - fixed warnings reported by Alexandre and kbuild robot
> 
> 	    v1 -> v2
> 	       - rebased on v4.11-rc1
> 	       - added Robin's Reviewed-by
> 	       - dedicated flag is introduced to use dev->dma_pfn_offset
> 	         rather than mem->device_base in case memory region is
> 		 configured via device tree (so Tested-by discarded there)
> 
> 	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/Kconfig                                   |   1 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h                 |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                                |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/Makefile                               |   5 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c                    | 253 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c                          |  29 +--
>  drivers/base/dma-coherent.c                        |  74 +++++-
>  lib/dma-noop.c                                     |  29 ++-
>  9 files changed, 354 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
>