linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: add a dma_ops

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Message-ID: <20200323172014.GA31269@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:20:14 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: add a dma_ops_bypass flag to struct
 device

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:58:01PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> 0x100.0000.0000 .. 0x101.0000.0000
> >>
> >> 2x4G, each is 1TB aligned. And we can map directly only the first 4GB
> >> (because of the maximum IOMMU table size) but not the other. And 1:1 on
> >> that "pseries" is done with offset=0x0800.0000.0000.0000.
> >>
> >> So we want to check every bus address against dev->bus_dma_limit, not
> >> dev->coherent_dma_mask. In the example above I'd set bus_dma_limit to
> >> 0x0800.0001.0000.0000 and 1:1 mapping for the second 4GB would not be
> >> tried. Does this sound reasonable? Thanks,
> > 
> > bus_dma_limit is just another limiting factor applied on top of
> > coherent_dma_mask or dma_mask respectively.
> 
> This is not enough for the task: in my example, I'd set bus limit to
> 0x0800.0001.0000.0000 but this would disable bypass for all RAM
> addresses - the first and the second 4GB blocks.

So what about something like the version here:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dma-bypass.3