[PATCH RESEND v2 3/8] uio: Add new UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE type for mem regions

From: Anup Patel
Date: Mon Aug 08 2016 - 01:53:31 EST


From: Ankit Jindal <thatsjindal@xxxxxxxxx>

Currently, three types of mem regions are supported: UIO_MEM_PHYS,
UIO_MEM_LOGICAL and UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL. Among these UIO_MEM_PHYS helps
UIO driver export physcial memory to user space as non-cacheable
user memory. Typcially memory-mapped registers of a device are exported
to user space as UIO_MEM_PHYS type mem region. The UIO_MEM_PHYS type
is not efficient if dma-capable devices are capable of maintaining
coherency with CPU caches.

This patch adds new type UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE for mem regions to enable
cacheable access to physical memory from user space.

Signed-off-by: Ankit Jindal <thatsjindal@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
include/linux/uio_driver.h | 9 +++++----
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index f2729b7..0e53076 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct uio_physical_vm_ops = {
#endif
};

-static int uio_mmap_physical(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static int uio_mmap_physical(struct vm_area_struct *vma, int memtype)
{
struct uio_device *idev = vma->vm_private_data;
int mi = uio_find_mem_index(vma);
@@ -656,7 +656,16 @@ static int uio_mmap_physical(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return -EINVAL;

vma->vm_ops = &uio_physical_vm_ops;
- vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
+ switch (memtype) {
+ case UIO_MEM_PHYS:
+ vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
+ break;
+ case UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE:
+ /* Do nothing. */
+ break;
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }

/*
* We cannot use the vm_iomap_memory() helper here,
@@ -704,7 +713,8 @@ static int uio_mmap(struct file *filep, struct vm_area_struct *vma)

switch (idev->info->mem[mi].memtype) {
case UIO_MEM_PHYS:
- return uio_mmap_physical(vma);
+ case UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE:
+ return uio_mmap_physical(vma, idev->info->mem[mi].memtype);
case UIO_MEM_LOGICAL:
case UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL:
return uio_mmap_logical(vma);
diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
index 32c0e83..31359aee 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
@@ -124,10 +124,11 @@ extern void uio_event_notify(struct uio_info *info);
#define UIO_IRQ_NONE 0

/* defines for uio_mem->memtype */
-#define UIO_MEM_NONE 0
-#define UIO_MEM_PHYS 1
-#define UIO_MEM_LOGICAL 2
-#define UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL 3
+#define UIO_MEM_NONE 0
+#define UIO_MEM_PHYS 1
+#define UIO_MEM_LOGICAL 2
+#define UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL 3
+#define UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE 4

/* defines for uio_port->porttype */
#define UIO_PORT_NONE 0
--
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