Re: [PATCH] dell_rbu: stop abusing the DMA API

From: Stuart Hayes
Date: Fri Feb 01 2019 - 13:28:53 EST



On 1/29/2019 1:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For some odd reason dell_rbu actually seems to want the physical and
> not a bus address for the allocated buffer. Lets assume that actually
> is correct given that it is BIOS-related and that is a good source
> of insanity. In that case we should not use dma_alloc_coherent with
> a NULL device to allocate memory, but use GFP_DMA32 to stay under
> the 32-bit BIOS limit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell_rbu.c | 52 ++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell_rbu.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell_rbu.c
> index ccefa84f7305..fba7d96c1714 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell_rbu.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell_rbu.c
> @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static struct _rbu_data {
> unsigned long image_update_buffer_size;
> unsigned long bios_image_size;
> int image_update_ordernum;
> - int dma_alloc;
> spinlock_t lock;
> unsigned long packet_read_count;
> unsigned long num_packets;
> @@ -89,7 +88,6 @@ static struct packet_data packet_data_head;
>
> static struct platform_device *rbu_device;
> static int context;
> -static dma_addr_t dell_rbu_dmaaddr;
>
> static void init_packet_head(void)
> {
> @@ -380,12 +378,8 @@ static void img_update_free(void)
> */
> memset(rbu_data.image_update_buffer, 0,
> rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size);
> - if (rbu_data.dma_alloc == 1)
> - dma_free_coherent(NULL, rbu_data.bios_image_size,
> - rbu_data.image_update_buffer, dell_rbu_dmaaddr);
> - else
> - free_pages((unsigned long) rbu_data.image_update_buffer,
> - rbu_data.image_update_ordernum);
> + free_pages((unsigned long) rbu_data.image_update_buffer,
> + rbu_data.image_update_ordernum);
>
> /*
> * Re-initialize the rbu_data variables after a free
> @@ -394,7 +388,6 @@ static void img_update_free(void)
> rbu_data.image_update_buffer = NULL;
> rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size = 0;
> rbu_data.bios_image_size = 0;
> - rbu_data.dma_alloc = 0;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -410,10 +403,8 @@ static void img_update_free(void)
> static int img_update_realloc(unsigned long size)
> {
> unsigned char *image_update_buffer = NULL;
> - unsigned long rc;
> unsigned long img_buf_phys_addr;
> int ordernum;
> - int dma_alloc = 0;
>
> /*
> * check if the buffer of sufficient size has been
> @@ -444,36 +435,23 @@ static int img_update_realloc(unsigned long size)
>
> ordernum = get_order(size);
> image_update_buffer =
> - (unsigned char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, ordernum);
> -
> - img_buf_phys_addr =
> - (unsigned long) virt_to_phys(image_update_buffer);
> -
> - if (img_buf_phys_addr > BIOS_SCAN_LIMIT) {
> - free_pages((unsigned long) image_update_buffer, ordernum);
> - ordernum = -1;
> - image_update_buffer = dma_alloc_coherent(NULL, size,
> - &dell_rbu_dmaaddr, GFP_KERNEL);
> - dma_alloc = 1;
> - }
> -
> - spin_lock(&rbu_data.lock);
> -
> - if (image_update_buffer != NULL) {
> - rbu_data.image_update_buffer = image_update_buffer;
> - rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size = size;
> - rbu_data.bios_image_size =
> - rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size;
> - rbu_data.image_update_ordernum = ordernum;
> - rbu_data.dma_alloc = dma_alloc;
> - rc = 0;
> - } else {
> + (unsigned char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_DMA32, ordernum);
> + if (!image_update_buffer) {
> pr_debug("Not enough memory for image update:"
> "size = %ld\n", size);
> - rc = -ENOMEM;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> - return rc;
> + img_buf_phys_addr = (unsigned long)virt_to_phys(image_update_buffer);
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(img_buf_phys_addr > BIOS_SCAN_LIMIT))
> + return -EINVAL; /* can't happen per defintion */
> +
> + spin_lock(&rbu_data.lock);
> + rbu_data.image_update_buffer = image_update_buffer;
> + rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size = size;
> + rbu_data.bios_image_size = rbu_data.image_update_buffer_size;
> + rbu_data.image_update_ordernum = ordernum;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static ssize_t read_packet_data(char *buffer, loff_t pos, size_t count)
>

Acked-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx>