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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:51:34 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@...ote.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [V5, 2/3] mm: dmapool: Align to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN in non-coherent DMA mode On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:44:54AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote: > On 18/09/17 05:22, Huacai Chen wrote: > > In non-coherent DMA mode, kernel uses cache flushing operations to > > maintain I/O coherency, so the dmapool objects should be aligned to > > ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. Otherwise, it will cause data corruption, at least > > on MIPS: > > > > Step 1, dma_map_single > > Step 2, cache_invalidate (no writeback) > > Step 3, dma_from_device > > Step 4, dma_unmap_single > > This is a massive red warning flag for the whole series, because DMA > pools don't work like that. At best, this will do nothing, and at worst > it is papering over egregious bugs elsewhere. Streaming mappings of > coherent allocations means completely broken code. Oh, I hadn't even seen that part. Yes, dma coherent (and pool) allocations must never be used for streaming mappings. I wish we'd have some debug infrastructure to warn on such uses.
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