netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7] RDMA/hfi1: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc

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Message-ID: <b4481009-68fb-19f0-4d75-c4d242ed3b64@cornelisnetworks.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:41:45 -0600
From:   Dean Luick <dean.luick@...nelisnetworks.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux.dev, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] RDMA/hfi1: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to
 dma_alloc_coherent

On 11/16/2022 11:49 AM, Dean Luick wrote:
> On 11/16/2022 9:45 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 03:15:10PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>> Coherent DMA buffers are allocated by a kernel driver or subsystem for the
>>> use of a device managed by that driver or subsystem, and thus they
>>> fundamentally belong to the kernel as proxy for the device. Any coherent
>>> DMA buffer may be mapped to userspace with the dma_mmap_*() interfaces, but
>>> they're never a "userspace allocation" in that sense.
>>
>> Exactly.  I could not find a place to map the buffers to userspace,
>> so if it does that without using the proper interfaces we need to fix
>> that as well.  Dean, can you point me to the mmap code?
>
> See hfi1_file_mmap(), cases RCV_HDRQ and RCV_EGRBUF, for the two items you changed in hfi1.  Both directly use remap_pfn_range(), which is probably the original approved call, but now is now buried deep within dma_mmap_*().  As you say - these should be updated.  That said, the eager buffer mapping will stitch together multiple eager buffers into a single user map/vma.  I don't see how to do that with the dma_mmap_*() interface.

I have tested the proposed hfi1 changes.  They are fine.

Acked-by: Dean Luick <dean.luick@...nelisnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Dean Luick <dean.luick@...nelisnetworks.com>


Using dma_mmap_*() for the changed cases (e.g. rcvhdrq) fails.  They are being looked at.  I don't think they need to be part of this change.

-Dean

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