Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: add a dma_ops_bypass flag to struct device

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 26/03/2020 12:26, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/03/2020 19:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:51:36PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>> This is for persistent memory which you can DMA to/from but yet it does
>>>>> not appear in the system as a normal memory and therefore requires
>>>>> special handling anyway (O_DIRECT or DAX, I do not know the exact
>>>>> mechanics). All other devices in the system should just run as usual,
>>>>> i.e. use 1:1 mapping if possible.
>>>>
>>>> On other systems (x86 and arm) pmem as long as it is page backed does
>>>> not require any special handling.  This must be some weird way powerpc
>>>> fucked up again, and I suspect you'll have to suffer from it.
>>>
>>>
>>> It does not matter if it is backed by pages or not, the problem may also
>>> appear if we wanted for example p2p PCI via IOMMU (between PHBs) and
>>> MMIO might be mapped way too high in the system address space and make
>>> 1:1 impossible.
>>
>> How can it be mapped too high for a direct mapping with a 64-bit DMA
>> mask?
> 
> The window size is limited and often it is not even sparse. It requires
> an 8 byte entry per an IOMMU page (which is most commonly is 64k max) so
> 1TB limit (a guest RAM size) is a quite real thing. MMIO is mapped to
> guest physical address space outside of this 1TB (on PPC).
> 
> 

I am trying now this approach on top of yours "dma-bypass.3" (it is
"wip", needs an upper boundary check):

https://github.com/aik/linux/commit/49d73c7771e3f6054804f6cfa80b4e320111662d

Do you see any serious problem with this approach? Thanks!



-- 
Alexey