Re: [PATCH] mmc: core Drop BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, at 09:50, Linus Walleij wrote:
> The MMC core sets BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH for devices where dma_mask
> is unassigned.
>
> For the majority of MMC hosts this path is never taken: the
> OF core will unconditionally assign a 32-bit mask to any
> OF device, and most MMC hosts are probed from device tree,
> see drivers/of/platform.c:
>
> of_platform_device_create_pdata()
>         dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>         if (!dev->dev.dma_mask)
>                 dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
>
> of_amba_device_create()
>         dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>         dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
>
> MMC devices that are probed from ACPI or PCI will likewise
> have a proper dma_mask assigned.
>
> The only remaining devices that could have a blank dma_mask
> are platform devices instantiated from board files.
>
> These are mostly used on systems without CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> enabled which means the block layer will not bounce, and in
> the few cases where it is enabled it is not used anyway:
> for example some OMAP2 systems such as Nokia n800/n810 will
> create a platform_device and not assign a dma_mask, however
> they do not have any highmem, so no bouncing will happen
> anyway: the block core checks if max_low_pfn >= max_pfn
> and this will always be false.
>
> Should it turn out there is a platform_device with blank
> DMA mask actually using CONFIG_HIGHMEM somewhere out there
> we should set dma_mask for it, not do this trickery.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

I think it's worth mentioning the cb710 example here, which
uses a platform device as a child of a PCI device and
does not assign a DMA mask nor use DMA.

This one will see a change in behavior, meaning that the
blockdev buffers are no longer bounced. As far as I can
tell, this is fine because the driver appears to correctly
use the sg_iter infrastructure for mapping data pages,
but it would be good to have this confirmed by
Michał Mirosław because this code path has probably never
been tested without BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH.

Adding Michał to Cc.

     Arnd