Re: [PATCH v3 4/20] PCI/P2PDMA: introduce helpers for dma_map_sg implementations

[Logan Gunthorpe]

On 2021-09-29 4:46 p.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:30:42PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On 2021-09-28 4:05 p.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> No, that's not a correct reading of the code. Every time there is a new
>> pagemap, this code calculates the mapping type and bus offset. If a page
>> comes along with a different page map,f it recalculates. This just
>> reduces the overhead so that the calculation is done only every time a
>> page with a different pgmap comes along and not doing it for every
>> single page.
> 
> Each 'struct scatterlist *sg' refers to a range of contiguous pfns
> starting at page_to_pfn(sg_page()) and going for approx sg->length/PAGE_SIZE
> pfns long.
> 

Ugh, right. A bit contrived for consecutive pages to have different
pgmaps and still be next to each other in a DMA transaction. But I guess
it is technically possible and should be protected against.

> sg_page() returns the first page, but nothing says that sg_page()+1
> has the same pgmap.
> 
> The code in this patch does check the first page of each sg in a
> larger sgl.
> 
>>> At least sg_alloc_append_table_from_pages() and probably something in
>>> the block world should be updated to not combine struct pages with
>>> different pgmaps, and this should be documented in scatterlist.*
>>> someplace.
>>
>> There's no sane place to do this check. The code is designed to support
>> mappings with different pgmaps.
> 
> All places that generate compound sg's by aggregating multiple pages
> need to include this check along side the check for physical
> contiguity. There are not that many places but
> sg_alloc_append_table_from_pages() is one of them:

Yes. The block layer also does this. I believe a check in
page_is_mergable() will be sufficient there.

> @@ -470,7 +470,8 @@ int sg_alloc_append_table_from_pages(struct sg_append_table *sgt_append,
>  
>                 /* Merge contiguous pages into the last SG */
>                 prv_len = sgt_append->prv->length;
> -               while (n_pages && page_to_pfn(pages[0]) == paddr) {
> +               while (n_pages && page_to_pfn(pages[0]) == paddr &&
> +                      sg_page(sgt_append->prv)->pgmap == pages[0]->pgmap) {

I don't think it's correct to use pgmap without first checking if it is
a zone device page. But your point is taken. I'll try to address this.

Logan