Hi Robin, On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/05/16 11:59, Niklas Söderlund wrote: >> While using CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG i came across this warning which I >> think is a false positive. As shown dma_sync_single_for_device() are >> called from the dma_map_single() call path. This triggers the warning >> since the dma-debug code have not yet been made aware of the mapping. > > Almost right ;) The thing being mapped (the SPI device's buffer) and the > thing being synced (the IOMMU's PTE) are entirely unrelated. Due to the > current of_iommu_init() setup, the IOMMU is probed long before > dma_debug_init() gets called, therefore DMA debug is missing entries for > some of the initial page table mappings and gets confused when we update > them later. I think I've been seeing the same as Niklas since quite a while. Finally I had a deeper look, and it looks like there is a bug somewhere, causing the wrong IOMMU PTE to be synced. >> I try to solve this by introducing __dma_sync_single_for_device() which >> do not call into the dma-debug code. I'm no expert and this might be a >> bad way of solving the problem but it allowed me to keep working. > > The simple fix should be to just call dma_debug_init() from a sufficiently > earlier initcall level. The best would be to sort out a proper device > dependency order to avoid the whole early-IOMMU-creation thing entirely. And so I did. After disabling the call to dma_debug_fs_init(), you can call dma_debug_init() quite early. But the warning didn't go away: ipmmu-vmsa e67b0000.mmu: DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000067bab2ff8] [size=8 bytes] ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 174 at lib/dma-debug.c:1235 check_sync+0xcc/0x568 ... [<ffffff800823a3a4>] check_sync+0xcc/0x568 [<ffffff800823a8d0>] debug_dma_sync_single_for_device+0x44/0x4c [<ffffff80082b8d34>] __arm_lpae_set_pte.isra.3+0x6c/0x78 [<ffffff80082b977c>] __arm_lpae_map+0x318/0x384 [<ffffff80082b9c58>] arm_lpae_map+0xb0/0xc4 [<ffffff80082bbc58>] ipmmu_map+0x48/0x58 [<ffffff80082b6754>] iommu_map+0x120/0x1fc [<ffffff80082b7bc8>] __iommu_dma_map+0xb8/0xec [<ffffff80082b8514>] iommu_dma_map_page+0x50/0x58 [<ffffff8008092d28>] __iommu_map_page+0x54/0x98 So, who allocated that memory? During early kernel init (before fs_initcall(dma_debug_init)): arm-lpae io-pgtable: arm_lpae_alloc_pgtable:652: cfg->ias = 32 data->pg_shift = 12 va_bits = 20 arm-lpae io-pgtable: arm_lpae_alloc_pgtable:657: data->bits_per_level = 9 data->levels = 3 pgd_bits = 2 ipmmu-vmsa e67b0000.mmu: __arm_lpae_alloc_pages:224 dma_map_single(0xffffffc63bab2000, 32) returned 0x000000067bab2000 Hence 0x67bab2000 is the PGD, which has only 4 entries (32 bytes). Call stack: [<ffffff80082b9240>] __arm_lpae_alloc_pages.isra.11+0x144/0x1e8 [<ffffff80082b93c0>] arm_64_lpae_alloc_pgtable_s1+0xdc/0x118 [<ffffff80082b9440>] arm_32_lpae_alloc_pgtable_s1+0x44/0x68 [<ffffff80082b8b1c>] alloc_io_pgtable_ops+0x4c/0x80 [<ffffff80082bbf28>] ipmmu_attach_device+0xd0/0x3b0 When starting DMA from the device: iommu: map: iova 0xfffffff000 pa 0x000000067a555000 size 0x1000 pgsize 4096 arm-lpae io-pgtable: __arm_lpae_map:318: iova 0xfffffff000 phys 0x000000067a555000 size 4096 lvl 1 ptep 0xffffffc63bab2000 arm-lpae io-pgtable: __arm_lpae_map:320: incr. ptep to 0xffffffc63bab2ff8 ipmmu-vmsa e67b0000.mmu: __arm_lpae_alloc_pages:224 dma_map_single(0xffffffc63a490000, 4096) returned 0x000000067a490000 ipmmu-vmsa e67b0000.mmu: DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000067bab2ff8] [size=8 bytes] __arm_lpae_map() added "ARM_LPAE_LVL_IDX(iova, lvl, data)" == 0xff8 to ptep (the PGD base address), but the PGD has only 32 bytes, leading to the warning. Does my analysis make sense? Do you have a clue? Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds