Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}_resource

From: Niklas Söderlund
Date: Thu Apr 21 2016 - 05:48:30 EST


Hi Christoph,

Have you had time to look at the audit? Is there anything else I can do
make progress on this?

On 2016-04-13 15:29:16 +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> On 2016-03-21 08:26:01 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:33:51PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > The good news is that, given that no code uses this new API at the moment,
> > > there isn't much to audit. The patch series implements the resource mapping
> > > for arch/arm only, and makes use of it in the rcar-dmac driver only. Would you
> > > like anything audited else than the arch/arm dma mapping implementation, the
> > > rcar-dmac driver and the code that then deals with the dma addresses (I'm
> > > thinking about the IOMMU subsystem and the ipmmu-vmsa driver in particular) ?
> >
> > Yes, it would be good to do an audit of all the ARM dma_ops as well
> > as generic code like drivers/base/dma-*.c, lib/dma-debug.c and
> > include/linux/dma-*.h
>
> I have now done an audit to the best of my abilities, thanks to Laurent
> for pointing me in the right direction. And from what I can tell we are
> good.
>
> * drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> Once the phys_addr_t is mapped to a dma_addr_t using
> dma_map_resource() it is only used to check that the transfere do not
> cross 4GB boundaries and then only directly written to HW registers.
>
> * drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> - iommu_map()
> Check that it's align to min page size or return -EINVAL then calls
> domain->ops->map()
>
> * drivers/iommu/ipmmu-vmsa.c
> - ipmmu_map()
> No logic only calls domain->ops->map()
>
> * drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> - arm_lpae_map()
> No logic only calls __arm_lpae_map()
> - __arm_lpae_map()
> No logic only calls arm_lpae_init_pte()
> - arm_lpae_init_pte()
> Used to get a pte:
> pte |= pfn_to_iopte(paddr >> data->pg_shift, data);
>
> * drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
> - arm_v7s_map()
> No logic only calls __arm_v7s_map()
> - __arm_v7s_map()
> No logic only calls arm_v7s_init_pte()
> - arm_v7s_init_pte
> Used to get a pte:
> pte |= paddr & ARM_V7S_LVL_MASK(lvl);
>
> * ARM dma-mapping
> - dma_unmap_*
> Only valid unmap is dma_unmap_resource() all others are an invalid
> use case.
> - dma_sync_single_*
> Invalid use case, memmory that is mapped is device memmory
> - dma_common_mmap() and dma_mmap_attrs()
> Invalid use case
> - dma_common_get_sgtable() and dma_get_sgtable_attrs()
> Invalid use case, only for dma_alloc_* allocated memory,
> - dma_mapping_error()
> OK

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Regards,
Niklas Söderlund