Re: [PATCH v9 14/32] drm: omapdrm: fix common struct sg_table related issues

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Tue Sep 01 2020 - 15:33:35 EST


On 2020-08-26 07:32, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
The Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt states that the dma_map_sg() function
returns the number of the created entries in the DMA address space.
However the subsequent calls to the dma_sync_sg_for_{device,cpu}() and
dma_unmap_sg must be called with the original number of the entries
passed to the dma_map_sg().

struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a non-contiguous
memory buffer, used commonly in the DRM and graphics subsystems. It
consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses (sgl entry),
as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages (orig_nents entry)
and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).

It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg()
function.

Fix the code to refer to proper nents or orig_nents entries. This driver
checks for a buffer contiguity in DMA address space, so it should test
sg_table->nents entry.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c
index ff0c4b0c3fd0..a7a9a0afe2b6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct omap_gem_object {
* OMAP_BO_MEM_DMA_API flag set)
*
* - buffers imported from dmabuf (with the OMAP_BO_MEM_DMABUF flag set)
- * if they are physically contiguous (when sgt->orig_nents == 1)
+ * if they are physically contiguous (when sgt->nents == 1)

Hmm, if this really does mean *physically* contiguous - i.e. if buffers might be shared between DMA-translatable and non-DMA-translatable devices - then these changes might not be appropriate. If not and it only actually means DMA-contiguous, then it would be good to clarify the comments to that effect.

Can anyone familiar with omapdrm clarify what exactly the case is here? I know that IOMMUs might be involved to some degree, and I've skimmed the interconnect chapters of enough OMAP TRMs to be scared by the reference to the tiler aperture in the context below :)

Robin.

*
* - buffers mapped through the TILER when dma_addr_cnt is not zero, in
* which case the DMA address points to the TILER aperture
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *omap_gem_new_dmabuf(struct drm_device *dev, size_t size,
union omap_gem_size gsize;
/* Without a DMM only physically contiguous buffers can be supported. */
- if (sgt->orig_nents != 1 && !priv->has_dmm)
+ if (sgt->nents != 1 && !priv->has_dmm)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
gsize.bytes = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *omap_gem_new_dmabuf(struct drm_device *dev, size_t size,
omap_obj->sgt = sgt;
- if (sgt->orig_nents == 1) {
+ if (sgt->nents == 1) {
omap_obj->dma_addr = sg_dma_address(sgt->sgl);
} else {
/* Create pages list from sgt */