Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.

From: Abdiel Janulgue
Date: Wed Jan 22 2025 - 05:14:48 EST




On 22/01/2025 11:13, Alice Ryhl wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM Abdiel Janulgue
<abdiel.janulgue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Add a simple dma coherent allocator rust abstraction. Based on
Andreas Hindborg's dma abstractions from the rnvme driver, which
was also based on earlier work by Wedson Almeida Filho.

Signed-off-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@xxxxxxxxx>
---
rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 1 +
rust/kernel/dma.rs | 281 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
3 files changed, 283 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 rust/kernel/dma.rs

diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
index 5c4dfe22f41a..49bf713b9bb6 100644
--- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
+++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/blk_types.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
#include <linux/errname.h>
#include <linux/ethtool.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
diff --git a/rust/kernel/dma.rs b/rust/kernel/dma.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ebae7270190e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/dma.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,281 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Direct memory access (DMA).
+//!
+//! C header: [`include/linux/dma-mapping.h`](srctree/include/linux/dma-mapping.h)
+
+use crate::{
+ bindings, build_assert,
+ device::Device,
+ error::code::*,
+ error::Result,
+ transmute::{AsBytes, FromBytes},
+ types::ARef,
+};
+
+/// Possible attributes associated with a DMA mapping.
+///
+/// They can be combined with the operators `|`, `&`, and `!`.
+///
+/// Values can be used from the [`attrs`] module.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Attrs(u32);
+
+impl Attrs {
+ /// Get the raw representation of this attribute.
+ pub(crate) fn as_raw(self) -> crate::ffi::c_ulong {
+ self.0 as _
+ }
+
+ /// Check whether `flags` is contained in `self`.
+ pub fn contains(self, flags: Attrs) -> bool {
+ (self & flags) == flags
+ }
+}
+
+impl core::ops::BitOr for Attrs {
+ type Output = Self;
+ fn bitor(self, rhs: Self) -> Self::Output {
+ Self(self.0 | rhs.0)
+ }
+}
+
+impl core::ops::BitAnd for Attrs {
+ type Output = Self;
+ fn bitand(self, rhs: Self) -> Self::Output {
+ Self(self.0 & rhs.0)
+ }
+}
+
+impl core::ops::Not for Attrs {
+ type Output = Self;
+ fn not(self) -> Self::Output {
+ Self(!self.0)
+ }
+}
+
+/// DMA mapping attrributes.
+pub mod attrs {
+ use super::Attrs;
+
+ /// Specifies that reads and writes to the mapping may be weakly ordered, that is that reads
+ /// and writes may pass each other.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING);
+
+ /// Specifies that writes to the mapping may be buffered to improve performance.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE);
+
+ /// Lets the platform to avoid creating a kernel virtual mapping for the allocated buffer.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING);
+
+ /// Allows platform code to skip synchronization of the CPU cache for the given buffer assuming
+ /// that it has been already transferred to 'device' domain.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
+
+ /// Forces contiguous allocation of the buffer in physical memory.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS);
+
+ /// This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that it's probably not worth the time to try
+ /// to allocate memory to in a way that gives better TLB efficiency.
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES);
+
+ /// This tells the DMA-mapping subsystem to suppress allocation failure reports (similarly to
+ /// __GFP_NOWARN).
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN);
+
+ /// Used to indicate that the buffer is fully accessible at an elevated privilege level (and
+ /// ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at lesser-privileged levels).
+ pub const DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED);
+}
+
+/// An abstraction of the `dma_alloc_coherent` API.
+///
+/// This is an abstraction around the `dma_alloc_coherent` API which is used to allocate and map
+/// large consistent DMA regions.
+///
+/// A [`CoherentAllocation`] instance contains a pointer to the allocated region (in the
+/// processor's virtual address space) and the device address which can be given to the device
+/// as the DMA address base of the region. The region is released once [`CoherentAllocation`]
+/// is dropped.
+///
+/// # Invariants
+///
+/// For the lifetime of an instance of [`CoherentAllocation`], the cpu address is a valid pointer
+/// to an allocated region of consistent memory and we hold a reference to the device.
+pub struct CoherentAllocation<T: AsBytes + FromBytes> {
+ dev: ARef<Device>,
+ dma_handle: bindings::dma_addr_t,
+ count: usize,
+ cpu_addr: *mut T,
+ dma_attrs: Attrs,
+}
+
+impl<T: AsBytes + FromBytes> CoherentAllocation<T> {
+ /// Allocates a region of `size_of::<T> * count` of consistent memory.
+ ///
+ /// # Examples
+ ///
+ /// ```
+ /// use kernel::device::Device;
+ /// use kernel::dma::{attrs::*, CoherentAllocation};
+ ///
+ /// # fn test(dev: &Device) -> Result {
+ /// let c: CoherentAllocation<u64> = CoherentAllocation::alloc_attrs(dev.into(), 4, GFP_KERNEL,
+ /// DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN)?;
+ /// # Ok::<(), Error>(()) }
+ /// ```
+ pub fn alloc_attrs(
+ dev: ARef<Device>,
+ count: usize,
+ gfp_flags: kernel::alloc::Flags,
+ dma_attrs: Attrs,
+ ) -> Result<CoherentAllocation<T>> {
+ build_assert!(
+ core::mem::size_of::<T>() > 0,
+ "It doesn't make sense for the allocated type to be a ZST"
+ );
+
+ let size = count
+ .checked_mul(core::mem::size_of::<T>())
+ .ok_or(EOVERFLOW)?;
+ let mut dma_handle = 0;
+ // SAFETY: device pointer is guaranteed as valid by invariant on `Device`.
+ // We ensure that we catch the failure on this function and throw an ENOMEM
+ let ret = unsafe {
+ bindings::dma_alloc_attrs(
+ dev.as_raw(),
+ size,
+ &mut dma_handle,
+ gfp_flags.as_raw(),
+ dma_attrs.as_raw(),
+ )
+ };
+ if ret.is_null() {
+ return Err(ENOMEM);
+ }
+ // INVARIANT: We just successfully allocated a coherent region which is accessible for
+ // `count` elements, hence the cpu address is valid. We also hold a refcounted reference
+ // to the device.
+ Ok(Self {
+ dev,
+ dma_handle,
+ count,
+ cpu_addr: ret as *mut T,
+ dma_attrs,
+ })
+ }
+
+ /// Performs the same functionality as `alloc_attrs`, except the `dma_attrs` is 0 by default.
+ pub fn alloc_coherent(
+ dev: ARef<Device>,
+ count: usize,
+ gfp_flags: kernel::alloc::Flags,
+ ) -> Result<CoherentAllocation<T>> {
+ CoherentAllocation::alloc_attrs(dev, count, gfp_flags, Attrs(0))
+ }
+
+ /// Returns the device, base address, dma handle, attributes and the size of the
+ /// allocated region.
+ ///
+ /// The caller takes ownership of the returned resources, i.e., will have the responsibility
+ /// in calling `bindings::dma_free_attrs`. The allocated region is valid as long as
+ /// the returned device exists.
+ pub fn into_parts(
+ self,
+ ) -> (
+ ARef<Device>,
+ *mut T,
+ bindings::dma_addr_t,
+ crate::ffi::c_ulong,
+ usize,
+ ) {
+ let size = self.count * core::mem::size_of::<T>();
+ let ret = (
+ self.dev.clone(),

Calling clone here increments the refcount, but you don't want to do
that since it leaks a count.


You mean return the raw *mut bindings::device instead of ARef<Device>. Otherwise the compiler complains not being able to move out ARef<Device> because it doesn't implement Copy.

Thanks,
Abdiel