Re: ib_umem_get and DMA_API_DEBUG question

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 03:53:29PM +0300, Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 27/08/2019 15:00, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:28:20AM +0300, Gal Pressman wrote:
> >> On 26/08/2019 17:05, Gal Pressman wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Lately I've been seeing DMA-API call traces on our automated testing runs which
> >>> complain about overlapping mappings of the same cacheline [1].
> >>> The problem is (most likely) caused due to multiple calls to ibv_reg_mr with the
> >>> same address, which as a result DMA maps the same physical addresses more than 7
> >>> (ACTIVE_CACHELINE_MAX_OVERLAP) times.
> >>
> >> BTW, on rare occasions I'm seeing the boundary check in check_sg_segment [1]
> >> fail as well. I don't have a stable repro for it though.
> >>
> >> Is this a known issue as well? The comment there states it might be a bug in the
> >> DMA API implementation, but I'm not sure.
> >>
> >> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.3-rc3/source/kernel/dma/debug.c#L1230
> > 
> > Maybe we are missing a dma_set_seg_boundary ?
> > 
> > PCI uses low defaults:
> > 
> > 	dma_set_max_seg_size(&dev->dev, 65536);
> > 	dma_set_seg_boundary(&dev->dev, 0xffffffff);
> 
> What would you set it to?

Full 64 bits.

For umem the driver is responsible to chop up the SGL as required, not
the core code.

Jason



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