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Message-ID: <353919fd-932e-5d81-6ac5-7b51117366cd@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:54:26 +0100
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>, Fang Hui <hui.fang@....com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: m.szyprowski@...sung.com, mchehab@...nel.org,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
anle.pan@....com, xuegang.liu@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MA-21654 Use dma_alloc_pages in
vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted
On 20/09/2023 8:41 am, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Hi Fang,
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 4:41 PM Fang Hui <hui.fang@....com> wrote:
>>
>> On system with "CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32=y", if the allocated physical address is
>
> First of all, thanks a lot for the patch! Please check my review comments below.
>
> Is CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 really the factor that triggers the problem? My
> understanding was that the problem was that the hardware has 32-bit
> DMA, but the system has physical memory at addresses beyond the first
> 4G.
Indeed, without ZONE-DMA32 it would be difficult for any allocator to
support this at all. SWIOTLB is merely a symptom - if it wasn't enabled,
the dma_map_sgtable() operation would just fail entirely when any page
is beyond the device's reach.
>> greater than 4G, swiotlb will be used. It will lead below defects.
>> 1) Impact performance due to an extra memcpy.
>> 2) May meet below error due to swiotlb_max_mapping_size()
>> is 256K (IO_TLB_SIZE * IO_TLB_SEGSIZE).
>> "swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 393216 bytes), total 65536 (slots),
>> used 2358 (slots)"
>>
>> To avoid those defects, use dma_alloc_pages() instead of alloc_pages()
>> in vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted().
>>
>> Suggested-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Fang Hui <hui.fang@....com>
>> ---
>> drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 11 +++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Please remove MA-21654 from the subject and prefix it with the right
> tags for the path (`git log drivers/media/common/videobuf2` should be
> helpful to find the right one).
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
>> index 28f3fdfe23a2..b938582c68f4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c
>> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct vb2_dma_sg_buf {
>> static void vb2_dma_sg_put(void *buf_priv);
>>
>> static int vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf,
>> - gfp_t gfp_flags)
>> + gfp_t gfp_flags, struct device *dev)
>
> FWIW buf->dev already points to the right device - although we would
> need to move the assignment in vb2_dma_sg_alloc() to a place higher in
> that function before calling this function.
>
>> {
>> unsigned int last_page = 0;
>> unsigned long size = buf->size;
>> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static int vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf,
>> struct page *pages;
>> int order;
>> int i;
>> + dma_addr_t dma_handle;
>>
>> order = get_order(size);
>> /* Don't over allocate*/
>> @@ -75,8 +76,9 @@ static int vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf,
>>
>> pages = NULL;
>> while (!pages) {
>> - pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO |
>> - __GFP_NOWARN | gfp_flags, order);
>> + pages = dma_alloc_pages(dev, PAGE_SIZE << order, &dma_handle,
>
> Hmm, when I was proposing dma_alloc_pages(), I missed that it returns
> a DMA handle. That on its own can be handled by saving the returned
> handles somewhere in struct vb2_dma_sg_buf, but there is a bigger
> problem - the function would actually create a mapping if the DMA
> device requires some mapping management (e.g. is behind an IOMMU),
> which is undesirable, because we create the mapping ourselves below
> anyway...
>
> @Christoph Hellwig @Robin Murphy I need your thoughts on this as
> well. Would it make sense to have a variant of dma_alloc_pages() that
> only allocates the pages, but doesn't perform the mapping? (Or a flag
> that tells the implementation to skip creating a mapping.)
As I mentioned before, I think it might make the most sense to make the
whole thing into a "proper" dma_alloc_sgtable() function, which can then
be used with dma_sync_sgtable_*() as dma_alloc_pages() is used with
dma_sync_single_*() (and then dma_alloc_noncontiguous() clearly falls as
the special in-between case).
Thanks,
Robin.
>> + DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL,
>
> The right value should be already available in buf->dma_dir.
>
>> + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN | gfp_flags);
>> if (pages)
>> break;
>>
>> @@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ static int vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(struct vb2_dma_sg_buf *buf,
>> }
>>
>> return 0;
>> +
>
> Unnecessary blank line.
>
>> }
>>
>> static void *vb2_dma_sg_alloc(struct vb2_buffer *vb, struct device *dev,
>> @@ -130,7 +133,7 @@ static void *vb2_dma_sg_alloc(struct vb2_buffer *vb, struct device *dev,
>> if (!buf->pages)
>> goto fail_pages_array_alloc;
>>
>> - ret = vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(buf, vb->vb2_queue->gfp_flags);
>> + ret = vb2_dma_sg_alloc_compacted(buf, vb->vb2_queue->gfp_flags, dev);
>> if (ret)
>> goto fail_pages_alloc;
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
>
> We also need to use dma_free_pages() to free the memory.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
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