linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: fix page attributes for dma_mmap

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Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:10:52 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Shawn Anastasio <shawn@...stas.io>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gavin Li <git@...gavinli.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: fix page attributes for dma_mmap_*

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:01:44AM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> All the way back to introducing dma_common_mmap we've defaulyed to mark

s/defaultyed/defaulted/

> the pages as uncached.  But this is wrong for DMA coherent devices.
> Later on DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE also got incorrect treatment as that
> flag is only treated special on the alloc side for non-coherent devices.
> 
> Introduce a new dma_pgprot helper that deals with the check for coherent
> devices so that only the remapping cases even reach arch_dma_mmap_pgprot

s/even/ever/

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 1d3f0b5a9940..bd2b039f43a6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -14,9 +14,7 @@
>  pgprot_t arch_dma_mmap_pgprot(struct device *dev, pgprot_t prot,
>  		unsigned long attrs)
>  {
> -	if (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev) || (attrs & DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE))
> -		return pgprot_writecombine(prot);
> -	return prot;
> +	return pgprot_writecombine(prot);
>  }

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>