linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc

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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:59:31 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@...tnet.com.au>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Linux IOMMU <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
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        linux-c6x-dev@...ux-c6x.org,
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:14:29AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Yep, that is right. Certainly the MMU case is broken. Some noMMU cases work
> by virtue of the SoC only having an instruction cache (the older V2 cores).

Is there a good an easy case to detect if a core has a cache?  Either
runtime or in Kconfig?

> The MMU case is fixable, but I think it will mean changing away from
> the fall-back virtual:physical 1:1 mapping it uses for the kernel address
> space. So not completely trivial. Either that or a dedicated area of RAM
> for coherent allocations that we can mark as non-cachable via the really
> course grained and limited ACR registers - not really very appealing.

What about CF_PAGE_NOCACHE?  Reading arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h
suggest this would cause an uncached mapping, in which case something
like this should work:

	http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/commitdiff/4b8711d436e8d56edbc5ca19aa2be639705bbfef

> The noMMU case in general is probably limited to something like that same
> type of dedicated RAM/ACR register mechamism.
>
> The most commonly used periperal with DMA is the FEC ethernet module,
> and it has some "special" (used very loosely) cache flushing for
> parts like the 532x family which probably makes it mostly work right.
> There is a PCI bus on the 54xx family of parts, and I know general
> ethernet cards on it (like e1000's) have problems I am sure are
> related to the fact that coherent memory allocations aren't.

If we really just care about FEC we can just switch it do use
DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT and do explicit cache flushing.  But as far
as I can tell FEC only uses DMA coherent allocations for the TSO
headers anyway, is TSO even used on this SOC?