On 11/07/18 15:40, Rob Herring wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:43 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Whilst the common firmware code invoked by dma_configure() initialises
devices' DMA masks according to limitations described by the respective
properties ("dma-ranges" for OF and _DMA/IORT for ACPI), the nature of
the dma_set_mask() API leads to that information getting lost when
well-behaved drivers probe and set a 64-bit mask, since in general
there's no way to tell the difference between a firmware-described mask
(which should be respected) and whatever default may have come from the
bus code (which should be replaced outright). This can break DMA on
systems with certain IOMMU topologies (e.g. [1]) where the IOMMU driver
only knows its maximum supported address size, not how many of those
address bits might actually be wired up between any of its input
interfaces and the associated DMA master devices. Similarly, some PCIe
root complexes only have a 32-bit native interface on their host bridge,
which leads to the same DMA-address-truncation problem in systems with a
larger physical memory map and RAM above 4GB (e.g. [2]).
These patches attempt to deal with this in the simplest way possible by
generalising the specific quirk for 32-bit bridges into an arbitrary
mask which can then also be plumbed into the firmware code. In the
interest of being minimally invasive, I've only included a point fix
for the IOMMU issue as seen on arm64 - there may be further tweaks
needed in DMA ops to catch all possible incarnations of this problem,
but this initial RFC is mostly about the impact beyond the dma-mapping
subsystem itself.
Couldn't you set and use the device's parent's dma_mask instead. At
least for DT, we should always have a parent device representing the
bus. That would avoid further bloating of struct device.
But then if the parent device did have a non-trivial driver which calls
dma_set_mask(), we'd be back at square 1 :/
More realistically, I don't think that's viable for ACPI, at least with
IORT, since the memory address size limit belongs to the endpoint
itself, thus two devices with the same nominal parent in the Linux
device model could still have different limits (where in DT you'd have
to have to insert intermediate simple-bus nodes to model the same
topology with dma-ranges). Plus either way it seems somewhat fragile for
PCI where the host bridge may be some distance up the hierarchy.
Robin.
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