linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] ARM: Select DMA_DIRECT

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Message-ID: <CA+-6iNyUvYa2WUY_8eRvGyY6iq2L79NVRp36+ALNDfzMqvCJdA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:09:25 -0400
From:   Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, jim2101024@...il.com,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>,
        "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
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        Claire Chang <tientzu@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] ARM: Select DMA_DIRECT_REMAP to fix restricted DMA

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:07 AM Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 7:10 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > thanks for your patch!
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:52 PM Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Without this commit, the use of dma_alloc_coherent() while
> > > using CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y breaks devices from working.
> > > For example, the common Wifi 7260 chip (iwlwifi) works fine
> > > on arm64 with restricted memory but not on arm, unless this
> > > commit is applied.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com>
> >
> > (...)
> > > +       select DMA_DIRECT_REMAP
> >
> > Christoph invented that symbol so he can certainly
> > explain what is missing to use this on ARM.
> >
> > This looks weird to me, because:
> > > git grep atomic_pool_init
> > arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
> > kernel/dma/pool.c:static int __init dma_atomic_pool_init(void)
> >
> > Now you have two atomic DMA pools in the kernel,
> > and a lot more than that is duplicated. I'm amazed that it
> > compiles at all.

Ah, I did not communicate this well at all.  The patch compiles on our
ARM brcmstb_defconfig
for 5.15, 6.1, and upstream.  The kernel test-bot tells me it doesn't
compile on whatever
config it is using (looks like a missing header file).

My patch does not work on upstream; I only supplied it to show what
"fixes" 6.1 and 5.15.
For upstream on ARM, restricted-memory does not work w/ or w/o the patch.
For upstream on ARM64, restricted memory does not seem to be working either.

Regards,
Jim Quinlan
Broadcom STB/CM
> >
> > Clearly if you want to do this, surely the ARM-specific
> > arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c and arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping-nommu.c
> > needs to be removed at the same time?
> >
> > However I don't think it's that simple, because Christoph would surely
> > had done this a long time ago if it was that simple.
>
> Hello Linus,
>
> Yes, this is the reason I used "RFC" as the fix looked too easy to be viable :-)
> I debugged it enough to see that the host driver's
> writes to the dma_alloc_coherent() region  were not appearing in
> memory, and that
> led me to DMA_DIRECT_REMAP.
>
> BTW, I tested "restricted-dma" on the master-tip the other day and it
> failed for both arm64 and arm.
> Please take this with a large grain of salt  as this was a quick test
> and  I won't  have time to
> confirm and bisect until  next week at the earliest.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Quinlan
> Broadcom STB/CM
>
>
> >
> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij

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