Re: [mm PATCH v2 03/26] swiotlb: Add support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Sat Nov 05 2016 - 15:39:40 EST


.. snip..
> @@ -561,6 +565,7 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
> * First, sync the memory before unmapping the entry
> */
> if (orig_addr != INVALID_PHYS_ADDR &&
> + !(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) &&
> ((dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) || (dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)))
> swiotlb_bounce(orig_addr, tlb_addr, size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>
> @@ -654,7 +659,8 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_sync_single(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
> * GFP_DMA memory; fall back on map_single(), which
> * will grab memory from the lowest available address range.
> */
> - phys_addr_t paddr = map_single(hwdev, 0, size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> + phys_addr_t paddr = map_single(hwdev, 0, size,
> + DMA_FROM_DEVICE, 0);
> if (paddr == SWIOTLB_MAP_ERROR)
> goto err_warn;
>
> @@ -669,7 +675,8 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_sync_single(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
>
> /* DMA_TO_DEVICE to avoid memcpy in unmap_single */
> swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(hwdev, paddr,
> - size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> + size, DMA_TO_DEVICE,
> + DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);

This I believe is redundant. That is swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single only
does an bounce if the dir is DMA_FROM_DEVICE or DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.

I added /* optional. */
> goto err_warn;
> }
> }
> @@ -699,7 +706,7 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_sync_single(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
> free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, get_order(size));
> else
> /* DMA_TO_DEVICE to avoid memcpy in swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single */
> - swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(hwdev, paddr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> + swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(hwdev, paddr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE, 0);

.. but here you choose to put 0? I changed that to
DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC and expanded the comment above.

Time to test the patches.