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| 2 | ============================================ |
| 3 | |
| 4 | James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> |
| 5 | |
| 6 | This document describes the DMA API. For a more gentle introduction |
| 7 | of the API (and actual examples), see Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This API is split into two pieces. Part I describes the basic API. |
| 10 | Part II describes extensions for supporting non-consistent memory |
| 11 | machines. Unless you know that your driver absolutely has to support |
| 12 | non-consistent platforms (this is usually only legacy platforms) you |
| 13 | should only use the API described in part I. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Part I - dma_ API |
| 16 | ------------------------------------- |
| 17 | |
| 18 | To get the dma_ API, you must #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>. This |
| 19 | provides dma_addr_t and the interfaces described below. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA address for the platform. It can be |
| 22 | given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A CPU cannot reference |
| 23 | a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between its physical |
| 24 | address space and the DMA address space. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Part Ia - Using large DMA-coherent buffers |
| 27 | ------------------------------------------ |
| 28 | |
| 29 | void * |
| 30 | dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, |
| 31 | dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag) |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Consistent memory is memory for which a write by either the device or |
| 34 | the processor can immediately be read by the processor or device |
| 35 | without having to worry about caching effects. (You may however need |
| 36 | to make sure to flush the processor's write buffers before telling |
| 37 | devices to read that memory.) |
| 38 | |
| 39 | This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of consistent memory. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | It returns a pointer to the allocated region (in the processor's virtual |
| 42 | address space) or NULL if the allocation failed. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | It also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned integer the |
| 45 | same width as the bus and given to the device as the DMA address base of |
| 46 | the region. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Note: consistent memory can be expensive on some platforms, and the |
| 49 | minimum allocation length may be as big as a page, so you should |
| 50 | consolidate your requests for consistent memory as much as possible. |
| 51 | The simplest way to do that is to use the dma_pool calls (see below). |
| 52 | |
| 53 | The flag parameter (dma_alloc_coherent() only) allows the caller to |
| 54 | specify the GFP_ flags (see kmalloc()) for the allocation (the |
| 55 | implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of |
| 56 | the returned memory, like GFP_DMA). |
| 57 | |
| 58 | void * |
| 59 | dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, |
| 60 | dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag) |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Wraps dma_alloc_coherent() and also zeroes the returned memory if the |
| 63 | allocation attempt succeeded. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | void |
| 66 | dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, |
| 67 | dma_addr_t dma_handle) |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Free a region of consistent memory you previously allocated. dev, |
| 70 | size and dma_handle must all be the same as those passed into |
| 71 | dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by |
| 72 | the dma_alloc_coherent(). |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Note that unlike their sibling allocation calls, these routines |
| 75 | may only be called with IRQs enabled. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Part Ib - Using small DMA-coherent buffers |
| 79 | ------------------------------------------ |
| 80 | |
| 81 | To get this part of the dma_ API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h> |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Many drivers need lots of small DMA-coherent memory regions for DMA |
| 84 | descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page |
| 85 | or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work |
| 86 | much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the DMA-coherent allocator, |
| 87 | not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints |
| 88 | for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N-byte boundaries. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | |
| 91 | struct dma_pool * |
| 92 | dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev, |
| 93 | size_t size, size_t align, size_t alloc); |
| 94 | |
| 95 | dma_pool_create() initializes a pool of DMA-coherent buffers |
| 96 | for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which |
| 97 | can sleep. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size |
| 100 | are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware |
| 101 | alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed |
| 102 | in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary |
| 103 | crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated |
| 104 | from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | |
| 107 | void *dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags, |
| 108 | dma_addr_t *handle) |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the |
| 111 | allocation attempt succeeded. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | |
| 114 | void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags, |
| 115 | dma_addr_t *dma_handle); |
| 116 | |
| 117 | This allocates memory from the pool; the returned memory will meet the |
| 118 | size and alignment requirements specified at creation time. Pass |
| 119 | GFP_ATOMIC to prevent blocking, or if it's permitted (not |
| 120 | in_interrupt, not holding SMP locks), pass GFP_KERNEL to allow |
| 121 | blocking. Like dma_alloc_coherent(), this returns two values: an |
| 122 | address usable by the CPU, and the DMA address usable by the pool's |
| 123 | device. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | |
| 126 | void dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr, |
| 127 | dma_addr_t addr); |
| 128 | |
| 129 | This puts memory back into the pool. The pool is what was passed to |
| 130 | dma_pool_alloc(); the CPU (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what |
| 131 | were returned when that routine allocated the memory being freed. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | |
| 134 | void dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool); |
| 135 | |
| 136 | dma_pool_destroy() frees the resources of the pool. It must be |
| 137 | called in a context which can sleep. Make sure you've freed all allocated |
| 138 | memory back to the pool before you destroy it. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | |
| 141 | Part Ic - DMA addressing limitations |
| 142 | ------------------------------------ |
| 143 | |
| 144 | int |
| 145 | dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask) |
| 146 | |
| 147 | Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device |
| 148 | streaming and coherent DMA mask parameters if it is. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | int |
| 153 | dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask) |
| 154 | |
| 155 | Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device |
| 156 | parameters if it is. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | int |
| 161 | dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device |
| 164 | parameters if it is. |
| 165 | |
| 166 | Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. |
| 167 | |
| 168 | u64 |
| 169 | dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev) |
| 170 | |
| 171 | This API returns the mask that the platform requires to |
| 172 | operate efficiently. Usually this means the returned mask |
| 173 | is the minimum required to cover all of memory. Examining the |
| 174 | required mask gives drivers with variable descriptor sizes the |
| 175 | opportunity to use smaller descriptors as necessary. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | Requesting the required mask does not alter the current mask. If you |
| 178 | wish to take advantage of it, you should issue a dma_set_mask() |
| 179 | call to set the mask to the value returned. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings |
| 183 | -------------------------------- |
| 184 | |
| 185 | dma_addr_t |
| 186 | dma_map_single(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size, |
| 187 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 188 | |
| 189 | Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the |
| 190 | device and returns the DMA address of the memory. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting. |
| 193 | However the dma_ API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its |
| 194 | direction: |
| 195 | |
| 196 | DMA_NONE no direction (used for debugging) |
| 197 | DMA_TO_DEVICE data is going from the memory to the device |
| 198 | DMA_FROM_DEVICE data is coming from the device to the memory |
| 199 | DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction isn't known |
| 200 | |
| 201 | Notes: Not all memory regions in a machine can be mapped by this API. |
| 202 | Further, contiguous kernel virtual space may not be contiguous as |
| 203 | physical memory. Since this API does not provide any scatter/gather |
| 204 | capability, it will fail if the user tries to map a non-physically |
| 205 | contiguous piece of memory. For this reason, memory to be mapped by |
| 206 | this API should be obtained from sources which guarantee it to be |
| 207 | physically contiguous (like kmalloc). |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Further, the DMA address of the memory must be within the |
| 210 | dma_mask of the device (the dma_mask is a bit mask of the |
| 211 | addressable region for the device, i.e., if the DMA address of |
| 212 | the memory ANDed with the dma_mask is still equal to the DMA |
| 213 | address, then the device can perform DMA to the memory). To |
| 214 | ensure that the memory allocated by kmalloc is within the dma_mask, |
| 215 | the driver may specify various platform-dependent flags to restrict |
| 216 | the DMA address range of the allocation (e.g., on x86, GFP_DMA |
| 217 | guarantees to be within the first 16MB of available DMA addresses, |
| 218 | as required by ISA devices). |
| 219 | |
| 220 | Note also that the above constraints on physical contiguity and |
| 221 | dma_mask may not apply if the platform has an IOMMU (a device which |
| 222 | maps an I/O DMA address to a physical memory address). However, to be |
| 223 | portable, device driver writers may *not* assume that such an IOMMU |
| 224 | exists. |
| 225 | |
| 226 | Warnings: Memory coherency operates at a granularity called the cache |
| 227 | line width. In order for memory mapped by this API to operate |
| 228 | correctly, the mapped region must begin exactly on a cache line |
| 229 | boundary and end exactly on one (to prevent two separately mapped |
| 230 | regions from sharing a single cache line). Since the cache line size |
| 231 | may not be known at compile time, the API will not enforce this |
| 232 | requirement. Therefore, it is recommended that driver writers who |
| 233 | don't take special care to determine the cache line size at run time |
| 234 | only map virtual regions that begin and end on page boundaries (which |
| 235 | are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries). |
| 236 | |
| 237 | DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification |
| 238 | of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to |
| 239 | the driver. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this |
| 240 | primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device |
| 241 | may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see |
| 242 | below). |
| 243 | |
| 244 | DMA_FROM_DEVICE synchronisation must be done before the driver |
| 245 | accesses data that may be changed by the device. This memory should |
| 246 | be treated as read-only by the driver. If the driver needs to write |
| 247 | to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below). |
| 248 | |
| 249 | DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL requires special handling: it means that the driver |
| 250 | isn't sure if the memory was modified before being handed off to the |
| 251 | device and also isn't sure if the device will also modify it. Thus, |
| 252 | you must always sync bidirectional memory twice: once before the |
| 253 | memory is handed off to the device (to make sure all memory changes |
| 254 | are flushed from the processor) and once before the data may be |
| 255 | accessed after being used by the device (to make sure any processor |
| 256 | cache lines are updated with data that the device may have changed). |
| 257 | |
| 258 | void |
| 259 | dma_unmap_single(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size, |
| 260 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 261 | |
| 262 | Unmaps the region previously mapped. All the parameters passed in |
| 263 | must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping |
| 264 | API. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | dma_addr_t |
| 267 | dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page, |
| 268 | unsigned long offset, size_t size, |
| 269 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 270 | void |
| 271 | dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_address, size_t size, |
| 272 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 273 | |
| 274 | API for mapping and unmapping for pages. All the notes and warnings |
| 275 | for the other mapping APIs apply here. Also, although the <offset> |
| 276 | and <size> parameters are provided to do partial page mapping, it is |
| 277 | recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the |
| 278 | cache width is. |
| 279 | |
| 280 | int |
| 281 | dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr) |
| 282 | |
| 283 | In some circumstances dma_map_single() and dma_map_page() will fail to create |
| 284 | a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing the returned |
| 285 | DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value means the mapping |
| 286 | could not be created and the driver should take appropriate action (e.g. |
| 287 | reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later). |
| 288 | |
| 289 | int |
| 290 | dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, |
| 291 | int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 292 | |
| 293 | Returns: the number of DMA address segments mapped (this may be shorter |
| 294 | than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are |
| 295 | physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single |
| 296 | entry). |
| 297 | |
| 298 | Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once. |
| 299 | The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg. |
| 300 | |
| 301 | As with the other mapping interfaces, dma_map_sg() can fail. When it |
| 302 | does, 0 is returned and a driver must take appropriate action. It is |
| 303 | critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver |
| 304 | aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and |
| 305 | corrupting the filesystem. |
| 306 | |
| 307 | With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this: |
| 308 | |
| 309 | int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction); |
| 310 | struct scatterlist *sg; |
| 311 | |
| 312 | for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) { |
| 313 | hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg); |
| 314 | hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg); |
| 315 | } |
| 316 | |
| 317 | where nents is the number of entries in the sglist. |
| 318 | |
| 319 | The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries |
| 320 | into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be |
| 321 | physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it |
| 322 | mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times) |
| 325 | and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously |
| 326 | accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | void |
| 329 | dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, |
| 330 | int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 331 | |
| 332 | Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list. All the parameters |
| 333 | must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping |
| 334 | API. |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of |
| 337 | DMA address entries returned. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | void |
| 340 | dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size, |
| 341 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 342 | void |
| 343 | dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size, |
| 344 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 345 | void |
| 346 | dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents, |
| 347 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 348 | void |
| 349 | dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents, |
| 350 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 351 | |
| 352 | Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU |
| 353 | and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same |
| 354 | as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API, |
| 355 | you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to |
| 356 | those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | Notes: You must do this: |
| 359 | |
| 360 | - Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device |
| 361 | (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction) |
| 362 | - After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA |
| 363 | (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction |
| 364 | - before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is |
| 365 | DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL |
| 366 | |
| 367 | See also dma_map_single(). |
| 368 | |
| 369 | dma_addr_t |
| 370 | dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size, |
| 371 | enum dma_data_direction dir, |
| 372 | struct dma_attrs *attrs) |
| 373 | |
| 374 | void |
| 375 | dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, |
| 376 | size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, |
| 377 | struct dma_attrs *attrs) |
| 378 | |
| 379 | int |
| 380 | dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, |
| 381 | int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, |
| 382 | struct dma_attrs *attrs) |
| 383 | |
| 384 | void |
| 385 | dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, |
| 386 | int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, |
| 387 | struct dma_attrs *attrs) |
| 388 | |
| 389 | The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions |
| 390 | without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional |
| 391 | struct dma_attrs*. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | struct dma_attrs encapsulates a set of "DMA attributes". For the |
| 394 | definition of struct dma_attrs see linux/dma-attrs.h. |
| 395 | |
| 396 | The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and |
| 397 | each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt. |
| 398 | |
| 399 | If struct dma_attrs* is NULL, the semantics of each of these |
| 400 | functions is identical to those of the corresponding function |
| 401 | without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs() |
| 402 | can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc. |
| 403 | |
| 404 | As an example of the use of the *_attrs functions, here's how |
| 405 | you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory |
| 406 | for DMA: |
| 407 | |
| 408 | #include <linux/dma-attrs.h> |
| 409 | /* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-attrs.h and |
| 410 | * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */ |
| 411 | ... |
| 412 | |
| 413 | DEFINE_DMA_ATTRS(attrs); |
| 414 | dma_set_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, &attrs); |
| 415 | .... |
| 416 | n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &attr); |
| 417 | .... |
| 418 | |
| 419 | Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its |
| 420 | presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping |
| 421 | routines, e.g.: |
| 422 | |
| 423 | void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, |
| 424 | size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, |
| 425 | struct dma_attrs *attrs) |
| 426 | { |
| 427 | .... |
| 428 | int foo = dma_get_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, attrs); |
| 429 | .... |
| 430 | if (foo) |
| 431 | /* twizzle the frobnozzle */ |
| 432 | .... |
| 433 | |
| 434 | |
| 435 | Part II - Advanced dma_ usage |
| 436 | ----------------------------- |
| 437 | |
| 438 | Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the |
| 439 | majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that |
| 440 | don't belong in usual drivers. |
| 441 | |
| 442 | If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a |
| 443 | processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the |
| 444 | API at all. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | void * |
| 447 | dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, |
| 448 | dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag) |
| 449 | |
| 450 | Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that the platform will |
| 451 | choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory as it sees |
| 452 | fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform that you |
| 453 | have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory in the |
| 454 | driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will |
| 457 | guarantee that the sync points become nops. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | Warning: Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain. You should |
| 460 | only use this API if you positively know your driver will be |
| 461 | required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures |
| 462 | that simply cannot make consistent memory. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | void |
| 465 | dma_free_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, |
| 466 | dma_addr_t dma_handle) |
| 467 | |
| 468 | Free memory allocated by the nonconsistent API. All parameters must |
| 469 | be identical to those passed in (and returned by |
| 470 | dma_alloc_noncoherent()). |
| 471 | |
| 472 | int |
| 473 | dma_get_cache_alignment(void) |
| 474 | |
| 475 | Returns the processor cache alignment. This is the absolute minimum |
| 476 | alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping |
| 477 | memory or doing partial flushes. |
| 478 | |
| 479 | Notes: This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache |
| 480 | line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly |
| 481 | into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power |
| 482 | of two for easy alignment. |
| 483 | |
| 484 | void |
| 485 | dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size, |
| 486 | enum dma_data_direction direction) |
| 487 | |
| 488 | Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by |
| 489 | dma_alloc_noncoherent(), starting at virtual address vaddr and |
| 490 | continuing on for size. Again, you *must* observe the cache line |
| 491 | boundaries when doing this. |
| 492 | |
| 493 | int |
| 494 | dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, |
| 495 | dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size, int |
| 496 | flags) |
| 497 | |
| 498 | Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when |
| 499 | it's asked for coherent memory for this device. |
| 500 | |
| 501 | phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently |
| 502 | assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region). |
| 503 | |
| 504 | device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed |
| 505 | with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the |
| 506 | dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()). |
| 507 | |
| 508 | size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE). |
| 509 | |
| 510 | flags can be ORed together and are: |
| 511 | |
| 512 | DMA_MEMORY_MAP - request that the memory returned from |
| 513 | dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writable. |
| 514 | |
| 515 | DMA_MEMORY_IO - request that the memory returned from |
| 516 | dma_alloc_coherent() be addressable using read()/write()/memcpy_toio() etc. |
| 517 | |
| 518 | One or both of these flags must be present. |
| 519 | |
| 520 | DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN - make the declared memory be allocated by |
| 521 | dma_alloc_coherent of any child devices of this one (for memory residing |
| 522 | on a bridge). |
| 523 | |
| 524 | DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE - only allocate memory from the declared regions. |
| 525 | Do not allow dma_alloc_coherent() to fall back to system memory when |
| 526 | it's out of memory in the declared region. |
| 527 | |
| 528 | The return value will be either DMA_MEMORY_MAP or DMA_MEMORY_IO and |
| 529 | must correspond to a passed in flag (i.e. no returning DMA_MEMORY_IO |
| 530 | if only DMA_MEMORY_MAP were passed in) for success or zero for |
| 531 | failure. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | Note, for DMA_MEMORY_IO returns, all subsequent memory returned by |
| 534 | dma_alloc_coherent() may no longer be accessed directly, but instead |
| 535 | must be accessed using the correct bus functions. If your driver |
| 536 | isn't prepared to handle this contingency, it should not specify |
| 537 | DMA_MEMORY_IO in the input flags. |
| 538 | |
| 539 | As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of |
| 540 | memory may be declared per device. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared |
| 543 | region only at the granularity of a page. For smaller allocations, |
| 544 | you should use the dma_pool() API. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | void |
| 547 | dma_release_declared_memory(struct device *dev) |
| 548 | |
| 549 | Remove the memory region previously declared from the system. This |
| 550 | API performs *no* in-use checking for this region and will return |
| 551 | unconditionally having removed all the required structures. It is the |
| 552 | driver's job to ensure that no parts of this memory region are |
| 553 | currently in use. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | void * |
| 556 | dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied(struct device *dev, |
| 557 | dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size) |
| 558 | |
| 559 | This is used to occupy specific regions of the declared space |
| 560 | (dma_alloc_coherent() will hand out the first free region it finds). |
| 561 | |
| 562 | device_addr is the *device* address of the region requested. |
| 563 | |
| 564 | size is the size (and should be a page-sized multiple). |
| 565 | |
| 566 | The return value will be either a pointer to the processor virtual |
| 567 | address of the memory, or an error (via PTR_ERR()) if any part of the |
| 568 | region is occupied. |
| 569 | |
| 570 | Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API |
| 571 | ------------------------------------------- |
| 572 | |
| 573 | The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be |
| 574 | released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With |
| 575 | the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers |
| 576 | do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can |
| 577 | result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems. |
| 578 | |
| 579 | To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can |
| 580 | be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those |
| 581 | violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable |
| 582 | debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this |
| 583 | option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels. |
| 584 | |
| 585 | If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping |
| 586 | about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an |
| 587 | error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An |
| 588 | example warning message may look like this: |
| 589 | |
| 590 | ------------[ cut here ]------------ |
| 591 | WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448 |
| 592 | check_unmap+0x203/0x490() |
| 593 | Hardware name: |
| 594 | forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong |
| 595 | function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as |
| 596 | single] [unmapped as page] |
| 597 | Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169 |
| 598 | Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1 |
| 599 | Call Trace: |
| 600 | <IRQ> [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130 |
| 601 | [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30 |
| 602 | [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0 |
| 603 | [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40 |
| 604 | [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0 |
| 605 | [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60 |
| 606 | [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50 |
| 607 | [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0 |
| 608 | [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40 |
| 609 | [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0 |
| 610 | [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50 |
| 611 | [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490 |
| 612 | [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50 |
| 613 | [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0 |
| 614 | [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0 |
| 615 | [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70 |
| 616 | [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150 |
| 617 | [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0 |
| 618 | [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa |
| 619 | <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]--- |
| 620 | |
| 621 | The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace |
| 622 | of the DMA-API call which caused this warning. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other |
| 625 | errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code |
| 626 | from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can |
| 627 | be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for |
| 628 | details. |
| 629 | |
| 630 | The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In |
| 631 | this directory the following files can currently be found: |
| 632 | |
| 633 | dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this |
| 634 | value is not equal to zero the debugging code |
| 635 | will print a warning for every error it finds |
| 636 | into the kernel log. Be careful with this |
| 637 | option, as it can easily flood your logs. |
| 638 | |
| 639 | dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y' |
| 640 | if the debugging code is disabled. This can |
| 641 | happen when it runs out of memory or if it was |
| 642 | disabled at boot time |
| 643 | |
| 644 | dma-api/error_count This file is read-only and shows the total |
| 645 | numbers of errors found. |
| 646 | |
| 647 | dma-api/num_errors The number in this file shows how many |
| 648 | warnings will be printed to the kernel log |
| 649 | before it stops. This number is initialized to |
| 650 | one at system boot and be set by writing into |
| 651 | this file |
| 652 | |
| 653 | dma-api/min_free_entries |
| 654 | This read-only file can be read to get the |
| 655 | minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the |
| 656 | allocator has ever seen. If this value goes |
| 657 | down to zero the code will disable itself |
| 658 | because it is not longer reliable. |
| 659 | |
| 660 | dma-api/num_free_entries |
| 661 | The current number of free dma_debug_entries |
| 662 | in the allocator. |
| 663 | |
| 664 | dma-api/driver-filter |
| 665 | You can write a name of a driver into this file |
| 666 | to limit the debug output to requests from that |
| 667 | particular driver. Write an empty string to |
| 668 | that file to disable the filter and see |
| 669 | all errors again. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default. |
| 672 | If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide |
| 673 | 'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging. |
| 674 | Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do |
| 675 | so. |
| 676 | |
| 677 | If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can |
| 678 | specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the |
| 679 | driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that |
| 680 | driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs. |
| 681 | |
| 682 | When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran |
| 683 | out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number |
| 684 | of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you |
| 685 | boot with 'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the |
| 686 | architectural default. |
| 687 | |
| 688 | void debug_dmap_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr); |
| 689 | |
| 690 | dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail |
| 691 | to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and |
| 692 | dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by |
| 693 | debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by |
| 694 | the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if |
| 695 | this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that |
| 696 | leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error() |
| 697 | routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging. |
| 698 | |