Re: [PATCH 1/3] uio: Allow handling of non page-aligned memory regions

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 09:26:17 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 01:45:50PM +0100, Michal Sojka wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16 2017, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Michal Sojka wrote:
> >> Since commit b65502879556 ("uio: we cannot mmap unaligned page
> >> contents") addresses and sizes of UIO memory regions must be
> >> page-aligned. If the address in the BAR register is not page-aligned,
> >> the mentioned commit forces the UIO driver to round the address down
> >> to the page size. Then, there is no easy way for user-space to learn
> >> the offset of the actual memory region within the page, because the
> >> offset seen in the sysfs is calculated from the rounded address and
> >> thus it is always zero.
> >>
> >> Fix that problem by including the offset in struct uio_mem. UIO
> >> drivers can set this field and its value is reported via sysfs.
> >
> > It is, where?
>
> /sys/class/uio/uio0/maps/map0/offset

Did you change the Documentation/ABI entry for it?

> >> Drivers for hardware with page-aligned BARs need not to be modified
> >> provided that they initialize struct uio_info with zeros.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/uio/uio.c | 2 +-
> >> include/linux/uio_driver.h | 13 ++++++++-----
> >> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
> >> index fba021f5736a..27c329131350 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
> >> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static ssize_t map_size_show(struct uio_mem *mem, char *buf)
> >>
> >> static ssize_t map_offset_show(struct uio_mem *mem, char *buf)
> >> {
> >> - return sprintf(buf, "0x%llx\n", (unsigned long long)mem->addr & ~PAGE_MASK);
> >> + return sprintf(buf, "0x%llx\n", (unsigned long long)mem->offs);
> >
> > All you changed was this value that sysfs shows.
> >
> >> }
> >>
> >> struct map_sysfs_entry {
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
> >> index 32c0e83d6239..89b53094f127 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
> >> @@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ struct uio_map;
> >> /**
> >> * struct uio_mem - description of a UIO memory region
> >> * @name: name of the memory region for identification
> >> - * @addr: address of the device's memory (phys_addr is used since
> >> - * addr can be logical, virtual, or physical & phys_addr_t
> >> - * should always be large enough to handle any of the
> >> - * address types)
> >> - * @size: size of IO
> >> + * @addr: address of the device's memory rounded to page
> >> + * size (phys_addr is used since addr can be
> >> + * logical, virtual, or physical & phys_addr_t
> >> + * should always be large enough to handle any of
> >> + * the address types)
> >> + * @offs: offset of device memory within the page
> >> + * @size: size of IO (multiple of page size)
> >> * @memtype: type of memory addr points to
> >> * @internal_addr: ioremap-ped version of addr, for driver internal use
> >> * @map: for use by the UIO core only.
> >> @@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ struct uio_map;
> >> struct uio_mem {
> >> const char *name;
> >> phys_addr_t addr;
> >> + unsigned long offs;;
> >
> > Did you really test this patch? Why the two ;;? And who sets this?
> >
> > I think you broke things :(
>
> This is set in patch 3/3 and it works correctly on my hardware. It seems
> like you would like to have patches 2/3 and 3/3 merged in a single one.
> I'll send v2 in a while and address your other comments as well.

No, I don't want 2 and 3 merged together, I want you to justify what you
are doing in 2 better (hint, I know what it is, but you need to do the
work...)

And I missed that this was set in 3, so you need to describe things a
bit better please.

thanks,

greg k-h