On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 18:18 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:13:31 +0900 > > > DMA on stack is forbidden because of non coherent architecutes and > > architectures can't uses stack addresses for DMA? What architectures > > can't uses stack addresses for DMA? Would it be better to just forbid > > using stack addresses for DMA on all the architectures at all times? > > Rather, the real problem is that some architectures map the kernel > stack virtually, and as a result virt_to_page() and things like that > will not work. > > It really is fully not working to put DMA buffers on the stack > in these cases. Actually, for SCSI only, that problem is fixed. Our decision to re-route all I/O, including kernel internal I/O through the block mapping algorithms (really so we don't have to worry about GFP_DMA any more since we can now use the block bounce buffers) means that all SCSI submission routines will accept vmalloc'd and even stack buffers perfectly correctly. However (before anyone gets any ideas), the stack is incredibly dangerous to do DMA on because it's packed with current data. If you don't get the alignment requirements right on a non-coherent platform, you'll end up corrupting data because of cache line interference issues. For this reason, DMA to stack is still technically illegal. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
