On 05/18/2018 10:50 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:20:02AM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> I never understood the need for this direction. And if memory serves me
>> right, at that time I was seeing twice the amount of cache flushing !
> It's necessary. Take a moment to think carefully about this:
>
> dma_map_single(, dir)
>
> dma_sync_single_for_cpu(, dir)
>
> dma_sync_single_for_device(, dir)
>
> dma_unmap_single(, dir)
As an aside, do these imply a state machine of sorts - does a driver needs to
always call map_single first ?
My original point of contention/confusion is the specific combinations of API and
direction, specifically for_cpu(TO_DEV) and for_device(TO_CPU)
Semantically what does dma_sync_single_for_cpu(TO_DEV) even imply for a non dma
coherent arch.
Your tables below have "none" for both, implying it is unlikely to be a real
combination (for ARM and ARC atleast).
The other case, actually @dir TO_CPU, independent of for_{cpu, device}? implies
driver intends to touch it after the call, so it would invalidate any stray lines,
unconditionally (and not just for speculative prefetch case).
> In the case of a DMA-incoherent architecture, the operations done at each
> stage depend on the direction argument:
>
> map for_cpu for_device unmap
> TO_DEV writeback none writeback none
> TO_CPU invalidate invalidate* invalidate invalidate*
> BIDIR writeback invalidate writeback invalidate
>
> * - only necessary if the CPU speculatively prefetches.
>
> The multiple invalidations for the TO_CPU case handles different
> conditions that can result in data corruption, and for some CPUs, all
> four are necessary.
Can you please explain in some more detail, TO_CPU row, why invalidate is
conditional sometimes.
