Re: [PATCH v3] media: vb2-dma-contig: configure DMA max segment size properly

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Hi Hans


On 2016-05-04 10:32, Hans Verkuil wrote:
Hi Marek,

On 05/04/2016 10:28 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
Hi Hans,


On 2016-05-04 10:22, Hans Verkuil wrote:
Hi Marek,

On 05/02/2016 12:59 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
This patch lets vb2-dma-contig memory allocator to configure DMA max
segment size properly for the client device. Setting it is needed to let
DMA-mapping subsystem to create a single, contiguous mapping in DMA
address space. This is essential for all devices, which use dma-contig
videobuf2 memory allocator and shared buffers (in USERPTR or DMAbuf modes
of operations).

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hello,

This patch is a follow-up of my previous attempts to let Exynos
multimedia devices to work properly with shared buffers when IOMMU is
enabled:
1. https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg96946.html
2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/97316
3. https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/30870/

As sugested by Hans, configuring DMA max segment size should be done by
videobuf2-dma-contig module instead of requiring all device drivers to
do it on their own.

Here is some backgroud why this is done in videobuf2-dc not in the
respective generic bus code:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-November/305913.html

Best regards,
Marek Szyprowski

changelog:
v3:
- added FIXME note about possible memory leak

v2:
- fixes typos and other language issues in the comments

v1: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.samsung-soc/53690
---
   drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c
index 461ae55eaa98..2ca7e798f394 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c
@@ -443,6 +443,42 @@ static void vb2_dc_put_userptr(void *buf_priv)
   }
/*
+ * To allow mapping the scatter-list into a single chunk in the DMA
+ * address space, the device is required to have the DMA max segment
+ * size parameter set to a value larger than the buffer size. Otherwise,
+ * the DMA-mapping subsystem will split the mapping into max segment
+ * size chunks. This function increases the DMA max segment size
+ * parameter to let DMA-mapping map a buffer as a single chunk in DMA
+ * address space.
+ * This code assumes that the DMA-mapping subsystem will merge all
+ * scatterlist segments if this is really possible (for example when
+ * an IOMMU is available and enabled).
+ * Ideally, this parameter should be set by the generic bus code, but it
+ * is left with the default 64KiB value due to historical litmiations in
+ * other subsystems (like limited USB host drivers) and there no good
+ * place to set it to the proper value. It is done here to avoid fixing
+ * all the vb2-dc client drivers.
+ *
+ * FIXME: the allocated dma_params structure is leaked because there
+ * is completely no way to determine when to free it (dma_params might have
+ * been also already allocated by the bus code). However in typical
+ * use cases this function will be called for platform devices, which are
+ * not how-plugged and exist all the time in the target system.
+ */
+static int vb2_dc_set_max_seg_size(struct device *dev, unsigned int size)
+{
+	if (!dev->dma_parms) {
+		dev->dma_parms = kzalloc(sizeof(dev->dma_parms), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!dev->dma_parms)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	if (dma_get_max_seg_size(dev) < size)
+		return dma_set_max_seg_size(dev, size);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
    * For some kind of reserved memory there might be no struct page available,
    * so all that can be done to support such 'pages' is to try to convert
    * pfn to dma address or at the last resort just assume that
@@ -499,6 +535,10 @@ static void *vb2_dc_get_userptr(struct device *dev, unsigned long vaddr,
   		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
   	}
+ ret = vb2_dc_set_max_seg_size(dev, PAGE_ALIGN(size + PAGE_SIZE));
Huh? Against which kernel do you compile? The get_userptr prototype is different
from the latest mainline kernel. Specifically, dev is now conf->dev.
I prepared it on top of your 'context3' branch, as you requested not to
use the
allocator context related functions, which best suit for this purpose.
That's not quite what I meant, sorry for the confusion. My reference to the
context3 branch was just that: to show upcoming changes and why it was not a
good idea to call this function from the context allocate/free functions. Since
those will disappear.

The context3 branch isn't for 4.7 (too late for that), but I want to get it
in early in the 4.8 cycle.

So just base this patch on the latest media_tree master.

I will send a version based on media tree in a few minutes.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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