Hi Olav, On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:54:44AM +0100, Olav Haugan wrote: > Mapping and unmapping are more often than not in the critical path. > map_sg and unmap_sg allows IOMMU driver implementations to optimize > the process of mapping and unmapping buffers into the IOMMU page tables. > > Instead of mapping a buffer one page at a time and requiring potentially > expensive TLB operations for each page, this function allows the driver > to map all pages in one go and defer TLB maintenance until after all > pages have been mapped. > > Additionally, the mapping operation would be faster in general since > clients does not have to keep calling map API over and over again for > each physically contiguous chunk of memory that needs to be mapped to a > virtually contiguous region. Just a couple of minor comments, but I think this is almost there now. > Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/iommu.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > index 1698360..1d5dc2e 100644 > --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > @@ -1088,6 +1088,50 @@ size_t iommu_unmap(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned long iova, size_t size) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_unmap); > > +int iommu_map_sg(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned long iova, > + struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nents, > + int prot, unsigned long flags) > +{ What do you anticipate passing in the flags parameter? I assume it's something specific to the scatterlist, since we can't provide this to iommu_map as it stands? > + int ret = 0; > + unsigned long offset = 0; > + > + if (unlikely(domain->ops->map_sg == NULL)) { > + unsigned int i; > + struct scatterlist *s; > + > + for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i) { > + phys_addr_t phys = page_to_phys(sg_page(s)); > + size_t page_len = s->offset + s->length; > + > + ret = iommu_map(domain, iova + offset, phys, page_len, > + prot); > + if (ret) > + goto fail; > + > + offset += page_len; > + } > + } else { > + ret = domain->ops->map_sg(domain, iova, sg, nents, prot, flags); > + } > + goto out; > + > +fail: > + /* undo mappings already done in case of error */ > + iommu_unmap(domain, iova, offset); I think this would be cleaner if you stuck it in the loop above and removed all these labels: if (ret) { iommu_unmap(...); break; } Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html