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Message-ID: <20260105073621-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 07:37:31 -0500
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/15] dma-debug: track cache clean flag in entries

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 10:54:33AM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 03:23:10 -0500
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > If a driver is buggy and has 2 overlapping mappings but only
> > sets cache clean flag on the 1st one of them, we warn.
> > But if it only does it for the 2nd one, we don't.
> > 
> > Fix by tracking cache clean flag in the entry.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/dma/debug.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > index 7e66d863d573..43d6a996d7a7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > +++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c
> > @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ enum map_err_types {
> >   * @sg_mapped_ents: 'mapped_ents' from dma_map_sg
> >   * @paddr: physical start address of the mapping
> >   * @map_err_type: track whether dma_mapping_error() was checked
> > + * @is_cache_clean: driver promises not to write to buffer while mapped
> >   * @stack_len: number of backtrace entries in @stack_entries
> >   * @stack_entries: stack of backtrace history
> >   */
> > @@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ struct dma_debug_entry {
> >  	int		 sg_call_ents;
> >  	int		 sg_mapped_ents;
> >  	phys_addr_t	 paddr;
> > -	enum map_err_types  map_err_type;
> > +	enum map_err_types map_err_type;
> 
> *nitpick* unnecessary change in white space (breaks git-blame).
> 
> Other than that, LGTM. I'm not formally a reviewer, but FWIW:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
> 
> Petr T


I mean, yes it's not really required here, but the padding we had before
was broken (two spaces not aligning to anything).

> > +	bool		 is_cache_clean;
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> >  	unsigned int	stack_len;
> >  	unsigned long	stack_entries[DMA_DEBUG_STACKTRACE_ENTRIES];
> > @@ -472,12 +474,15 @@ static int active_cacheline_dec_overlap(phys_addr_t cln)
> >  	return active_cacheline_set_overlap(cln, --overlap);
> >  }
> >  
> > -static int active_cacheline_insert(struct dma_debug_entry *entry)
> > +static int active_cacheline_insert(struct dma_debug_entry *entry,
> > +				   bool *overlap_cache_clean)
> >  {
> >  	phys_addr_t cln = to_cacheline_number(entry);
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  	int rc;
> >  
> > +	*overlap_cache_clean = false;
> > +
> >  	/* If the device is not writing memory then we don't have any
> >  	 * concerns about the cpu consuming stale data.  This mitigates
> >  	 * legitimate usages of overlapping mappings.
> > @@ -487,8 +492,16 @@ static int active_cacheline_insert(struct dma_debug_entry *entry)
> >  
> >  	spin_lock_irqsave(&radix_lock, flags);
> >  	rc = radix_tree_insert(&dma_active_cacheline, cln, entry);
> > -	if (rc == -EEXIST)
> > +	if (rc == -EEXIST) {
> > +		struct dma_debug_entry *existing;
> > +
> >  		active_cacheline_inc_overlap(cln);
> > +		existing = radix_tree_lookup(&dma_active_cacheline, cln);
> > +		/* A lookup failure here after we got -EEXIST is unexpected. */
> > +		WARN_ON(!existing);
> > +		if (existing)
> > +			*overlap_cache_clean = existing->is_cache_clean;
> > +	}
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&radix_lock, flags);
> >  
> >  	return rc;
> > @@ -583,20 +596,24 @@ DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(dump);
> >   */
> >  static void add_dma_entry(struct dma_debug_entry *entry, unsigned long attrs)
> >  {
> > +	bool overlap_cache_clean;
> >  	struct hash_bucket *bucket;
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  	int rc;
> >  
> > +	entry->is_cache_clean = !!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN);
> > +
> >  	bucket = get_hash_bucket(entry, &flags);
> >  	hash_bucket_add(bucket, entry);
> >  	put_hash_bucket(bucket, flags);
> >  
> > -	rc = active_cacheline_insert(entry);
> > +	rc = active_cacheline_insert(entry, &overlap_cache_clean);
> >  	if (rc == -ENOMEM) {
> >  		pr_err_once("cacheline tracking ENOMEM, dma-debug disabled\n");
> >  		global_disable = true;
> >  	} else if (rc == -EEXIST &&
> > -		   !(attrs & (DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC | DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN)) &&
> > +		   !(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) &&
> > +		   !(entry->is_cache_clean && overlap_cache_clean) &&
> >  		   !(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC) &&
> >  		     is_swiotlb_active(entry->dev))) {
> >  		err_printk(entry->dev, entry,


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