linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 14/13] gpio: virtio: fix DMA alignment

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:40:28 -0500
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 14/13] gpio: virtio: fix DMA alignment

The res and ires buffers in struct virtio_gpio_line and struct
vgpio_irq_line respectively are used for DMA_FROM_DEVICE via virtqueue_add_sgs().
However, within these structs, even though these elements are tagged
as ____cacheline_aligned, adjacent struct elements
can share DMA cachelines on platforms where ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN >
L1_CACHE_BYTES (e.g., arm64 with 128-byte DMA alignment but 64-byte
cache lines).

The existing ____cacheline_aligned annotation aligns to L1_CACHE_BYTES
which is now always sufficient for DMA alignment. For example,
with L1_CACHE_BYTES = 32 and ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN = 128
  - irq_lines[0].ires at offset 128
  - irq_lines[1].type at offset 192
both in same 128-byte DMA cacheline [128-256)

When the device writes to irq_lines[0].ires and the CPU concurrently
modifies one of irq_lines[1].type/disabled/masked/queued flags,
corruption can occur on non-cache-coherent platform.

Fix by using __dma_from_device_aligned_begin/end annotations on the
DMA buffers. Drop ____cacheline_aligned - it's not required to isolate
request and response, and keeping them would increase the memory cost.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
index 17e040991e46..32b578b46df8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/gpio/driver.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
@@ -24,8 +25,12 @@
 struct virtio_gpio_line {
 	struct mutex lock; /* Protects line operation */
 	struct completion completion;
-	struct virtio_gpio_request req ____cacheline_aligned;
-	struct virtio_gpio_response res ____cacheline_aligned;
+
+	__dma_from_device_aligned_begin
+	struct virtio_gpio_request req;
+	struct virtio_gpio_response res;
+
+	__dma_from_device_aligned_end
 	unsigned int rxlen;
 };
 
@@ -37,8 +42,9 @@ struct vgpio_irq_line {
 	bool update_pending;
 	bool queue_pending;
 
-	struct virtio_gpio_irq_request ireq ____cacheline_aligned;
-	struct virtio_gpio_irq_response ires ____cacheline_aligned;
+	__dma_from_device_aligned_begin
+	struct virtio_gpio_irq_request ireq;
+	struct virtio_gpio_irq_response ires;
 };
 
 struct virtio_gpio {
-- 
MST