We currently only support remapping memory as uncached through vmap
or a magic uncached segment provided by some architectures. But there
is a simpler and much better way available on some architectures where
we can just remap the memory in place. The advantages are:
1) no aliasing is possible, which prevents speculating into the
cached alias
2) there is no need to allocate new ptes and thus no need for a special
pre-allocated pool of memory that can be used with GFP_ATOMIC DMA
allocations
The downside is that architectures must provide a way to set arbitrary
pages uncached in the kernel mapping, which might not be possible on
architecture that have a special implicit kernel mapping, and requires
splitting of huge page kernel mappings where they exist.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
include/linux/dma-noncoherent.h | 3 +++
kernel/dma/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
kernel/dma/direct.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-noncoherent.h b/include/linux/dma-noncoherent.h
index ca9b5770caee..0820ec58f119 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-noncoherent.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-noncoherent.h
@@ -111,4 +111,7 @@ static inline void arch_dma_prep_coherent(struct page *page, size_t size)
void *uncached_kernel_address(void *addr);
void *cached_kernel_address(void *addr);
+int arch_dma_set_uncached(void *cpu_addr, size_t size);
+void arch_dma_clear_uncached(void *cpu_addr, size_t size);
+
#endif /* _LINUX_DMA_NONCOHERENT_H */
diff --git a/kernel/dma/Kconfig b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
index 4c103a24e380..7bc0b77f1243 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ config DMA_DIRECT_REMAP
bool
select DMA_REMAP
+#
+# Should be selected if the architecture can remap memory from the page
+# allocator and CMA as uncached and provides the arch_dma_set_uncached and
+# arch_dma_clear_uncached helpers
+#
+config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
+ bool
+
config DMA_CMA
bool "DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator"
depends on HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA
diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c
index 6af7ae83c4ad..73fe65a4cbc0 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/direct.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c
@@ -169,11 +169,8 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size,
ret = dma_common_contiguous_remap(page, PAGE_ALIGN(size),
dma_pgprot(dev, PAGE_KERNEL, attrs),
__builtin_return_address(0));
- if (!ret) {
- dma_free_contiguous(dev, page, size);
- return ret;
- }
-
+ if (!ret)
+ goto out_free_pages;
memset(ret, 0, size);
goto done;
}
@@ -186,8 +183,7 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size,
* so log an error and fail.
*/
dev_info(dev, "Rejecting highmem page from CMA.\n");
- dma_free_contiguous(dev, page, size);
- return NULL;
+ goto out_free_pages;
}
ret = page_address(page);
@@ -196,10 +192,15 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size,
memset(ret, 0, size);
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT) &&
- dma_alloc_need_uncached(dev, attrs)) {
+ if (dma_alloc_need_uncached(dev, attrs)) {
arch_dma_prep_coherent(page, size);
- ret = uncached_kernel_address(ret);
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED)) {
+ if (!arch_dma_set_uncached(ret, size))
+ goto out_free_pages;
+ } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT)) {
+ ret = uncached_kernel_address(ret);
+ }
}
done:
if (force_dma_unencrypted(dev))
@@ -207,6 +208,9 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size,
else
*dma_handle = phys_to_dma(dev, page_to_phys(page));
return ret;
+out_free_pages:
+ dma_free_contiguous(dev, page, size);
+ return NULL;
}
void dma_direct_free_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
@@ -230,6 +234,8 @@ void dma_direct_free_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_REMAP) && is_vmalloc_addr(cpu_addr))
vunmap(cpu_addr);
+ else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED))
+ arch_dma_clear_uncached(cpu_addr, size);
dma_free_contiguous(dev, dma_direct_to_page(dev, dma_addr), size);
}
@@ -238,6 +244,7 @@ void *dma_direct_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t gfp, unsigned long attrs)
{
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT) &&
+ !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED) &&
!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP) &&
dma_alloc_need_uncached(dev, attrs))
return arch_dma_alloc(dev, size, dma_handle, gfp, attrs);
@@ -248,6 +255,7 @@ void dma_direct_free(struct device *dev, size_t size,
void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr, unsigned long attrs)
{
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT) &&
+ !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED) &&
!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP) &&
dma_alloc_need_uncached(dev, attrs))
arch_dma_free(dev, size, cpu_addr, dma_addr, attrs);
--
2.24.1
