linux-kernel - Re: Do Qualcomm drivers use DMA buffers for request_firmware_into

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:18:47 -0700
From:   Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: Do Qualcomm drivers use DMA buffers for
 request_firmware_into_buf()?

On Wed 06 Jun 13:32 PDT 2018, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:23:46PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:38:05PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 12:44:37PM -0700, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I think the Qualcomm folks owning this (Andy, David, Bjorn, already
> > > > cc'd here) are better suited to answer that question.
> > > 
> > > Andy, David, Bjorn?
> > 
> > Andy, David, Bjorn?
> 
> A month now with no answer...
> 

The patch at the top of this thread doesn't interest me and you didn't
bother sending your question To me.

As a matter of fact I'm confused to what the actual question is.

> Perhaps someone who has this hardware can find out empirically for us, as
> follows (mm folks is this right?):
> 
> page = virt_to_page(address);
> if (!page)
>    fail closed...
> if (page_zone(page) == ZONE_DMA || page_zone(page) == ZONE_DMA32)
> 	this is a DMA buffer
> else
> 	not DMA!
> 

Where do you want to put this?

> Note that when request_firmware_into_buf() was being reviewed Mimi had asked back
> in 2016 [0] that if a DMA buffer was going to be used READING_FIRMWARE_DMA should be
> used otherwise READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER was fine.
> 
> If it is a DMA buffer *now*, why / how did this change?
> 

>From what I can see [0] says is to use READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER
regardless of where the memory comes from.

Regards,
Bjorn

> [0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9074611/
> 
>   Luis