Re: [PATCH v6] i2c: virtio: add a virtio i2c frontend driver

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On 2021/3/10 16:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:59 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2021/3/10 10:22 上午, Jie Deng wrote:
On 2021/3/4 17:15, Jason Wang wrote:

+        }
+
+        if (msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD)
+            memcpy(msgs[i].buf, req->buf, msgs[i].len);

Sorry if I had asked this before but any rason not to use msg[i].buf
directly?


The msg[i].buf is passed by the I2C core. I just noticed that these
bufs are not
always allocated by kmalloc. They may come from the stack, which may
cause
the check "sg_init_one -> sg_set_buf -> virt_addr_valid"  to fail.
Therefore the
msg[i].buf is not suitable for direct use here.
Right, stack is virtually mapped.
Maybe there is (or should be) a way to let the i2c core code handle
the bounce buffering in this case. This is surely not a problem that
is unique to this driver, and I'm sure it has come up many times in
the past.

I see that there is a i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf() helper for this
purpose, but it has to be called by the driver rather than the core,
so the driver still needs to keep track of each address when it
sends multiple i2c_msg at once, but maybe it can all be done
inside the sg_table instead of yet another structure.

At least this one avoids copying data that is marked with the
I2C_M_DMA_SAFE flag.

        Arnd

Make sense. Thanks Arnd. I will try to use those helper functions.

Regards,
Jie
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