linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Honour dma_alloc_coherent() alignment in swiotlb

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:03:38 +0000
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
 Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik1@...wei-partners.com>,
 Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Honour dma_alloc_coherent() alignment in
 swiotlb_alloc()

On 31/01/2024 12:25 pm, Will Deacon wrote:
> core-api/dma-api-howto.rst states the following properties of
> dma_alloc_coherent():
> 
>    | The CPU virtual address and the DMA address are both guaranteed to
>    | be aligned to the smallest PAGE_SIZE order which is greater than or
>    | equal to the requested size.
> 
> However, swiotlb_alloc() passes zero for the 'alloc_align_mask'
> parameter of swiotlb_find_slots() and so this property is not upheld.
> Instead, allocations larger than a page are aligned to PAGE_SIZE,
> 
> Calculate the mask corresponding to the page order suitable for holding
> the allocation and pass that to swiotlb_find_slots().

I guess this goes back to at least e81e99bacc9f ("swiotlb: Support 
aligned swiotlb buffers") when the explicit argument was added - not 
sure what we do about 5.15 LTS though (unless the answer is to not care...)

As before, though, how much of patch #1 is needed if this comes first?

Cheers,
Robin.

> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> Cc: Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik1@...wei-partners.com>
> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> ---
>   kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> index 4485f216e620..8ec37006ac70 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> @@ -1632,12 +1632,14 @@ struct page *swiotlb_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size)
>   	struct io_tlb_mem *mem = dev->dma_io_tlb_mem;
>   	struct io_tlb_pool *pool;
>   	phys_addr_t tlb_addr;
> +	unsigned int align;
>   	int index;
>   
>   	if (!mem)
>   		return NULL;
>   
> -	index = swiotlb_find_slots(dev, 0, size, 0, &pool);
> +	align = (1 << (get_order(size) + PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1;
> +	index = swiotlb_find_slots(dev, 0, size, align, &pool);
>   	if (index == -1)
>   		return NULL;
>