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2Dynamic DMA mapping using the generic device
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03158a70 5:Author: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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7This document describes the DMA API. For a more gentle introduction
77f2ea2f 8of the API (and actual examples), see Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt.
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10This API is split into two pieces. Part I describes the basic API.
11Part II describes extensions for supporting non-consistent memory
12machines. Unless you know that your driver absolutely has to support
13non-consistent platforms (this is usually only legacy platforms) you
14should only use the API described in part I.
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16Part I - dma_API
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03158a70 19To get the dma_API, you must #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>. This
77f2ea2f 20provides dma_addr_t and the interfaces described below.
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22A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA address for the platform. It can be
23given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A CPU cannot reference
24a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between its physical
25address space and the DMA address space.
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77f2ea2f 27Part Ia - Using large DMA-coherent buffers
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29
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31
32 void *
33 dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
34 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
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35
36Consistent memory is memory for which a write by either the device or
37the processor can immediately be read by the processor or device
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38without having to worry about caching effects. (You may however need
39to make sure to flush the processor's write buffers before telling
40devices to read that memory.)
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41
42This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of consistent memory.
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77f2ea2f 44It returns a pointer to the allocated region (in the processor's virtual
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45address space) or NULL if the allocation failed.
46
77f2ea2f 47It also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned integer the
3a9ad0b4 48same width as the bus and given to the device as the DMA address base of
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49the region.
50
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51Note: consistent memory can be expensive on some platforms, and the
52minimum allocation length may be as big as a page, so you should
53consolidate your requests for consistent memory as much as possible.
54The simplest way to do that is to use the dma_pool calls (see below).
55
77f2ea2f 56The flag parameter (dma_alloc_coherent() only) allows the caller to
03158a70 57specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see kmalloc()) for the allocation (the
a12e2c6c 58implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of
f5a69f4c 59the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
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62
63 void
64 dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
65 dma_addr_t dma_handle)
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67Free a region of consistent memory you previously allocated. dev,
68size and dma_handle must all be the same as those passed into
69dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by
70the dma_alloc_coherent().
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72Note that unlike their sibling allocation calls, these routines
73may only be called with IRQs enabled.
74
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77f2ea2f 76Part Ib - Using small DMA-coherent buffers
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78
03158a70 79To get this part of the dma_API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h>
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77f2ea2f 81Many drivers need lots of small DMA-coherent memory regions for DMA
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82descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page
83or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work
77f2ea2f 84much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the DMA-coherent allocator,
1da177e4 85not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints
a12e2c6c 86for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N-byte boundaries.
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87
88
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90
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91 struct dma_pool *
92 dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
93 size_t size, size_t align, size_t alloc);
94
77f2ea2f 95dma_pool_create() initializes a pool of DMA-coherent buffers
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96for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which
97can sleep.
98
e18b890b 99The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size
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100are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware
101alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed
102in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary
103crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated
104from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries.
105
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109 dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
110 dma_addr_t *handle)
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112Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
113allocation attempt succeeded.
114
115
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118 void *
119 dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
120 dma_addr_t *dma_handle);
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122This allocates memory from the pool; the returned memory will meet the
123size and alignment requirements specified at creation time. Pass
124GFP_ATOMIC to prevent blocking, or if it's permitted (not
125in_interrupt, not holding SMP locks), pass GFP_KERNEL to allow
126blocking. Like dma_alloc_coherent(), this returns two values: an
f311a724 127address usable by the CPU, and the DMA address usable by the pool's
77f2ea2f 128device.
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133 dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr,
134 dma_addr_t addr);
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1da177e4 136This puts memory back into the pool. The pool is what was passed to
f311a724 137dma_pool_alloc(); the CPU (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what
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138were returned when that routine allocated the memory being freed.
139
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142 void
143 dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool);
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77f2ea2f 145dma_pool_destroy() frees the resources of the pool. It must be
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146called in a context which can sleep. Make sure you've freed all allocated
147memory back to the pool before you destroy it.
148
149
150Part Ic - DMA addressing limitations
151------------------------------------
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154
155 int
156 dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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158Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
159streaming and coherent DMA mask parameters if it is.
160
161Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
162
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164
165 int
166 dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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168Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
169parameters if it is.
170
171Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
172
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174
175 int
176 dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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178Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
179parameters if it is.
180
181Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
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184
185 u64
186 dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev)
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188This API returns the mask that the platform requires to
189operate efficiently. Usually this means the returned mask
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190is the minimum required to cover all of memory. Examining the
191required mask gives drivers with variable descriptor sizes the
192opportunity to use smaller descriptors as necessary.
193
194Requesting the required mask does not alter the current mask. If you
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195wish to take advantage of it, you should issue a dma_set_mask()
196call to set the mask to the value returned.
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199
200 size_t
99d2b938 201 dma_max_mapping_size(struct device *dev);
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203Returns the maximum size of a mapping for the device. The size parameter
204of the mapping functions like dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and
205others should not be larger than the returned value.
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208
209 unsigned long
210 dma_get_merge_boundary(struct device *dev);
211
212Returns the DMA merge boundary. If the device cannot merge any the DMA address
213segments, the function returns 0.
214
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215Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings
216--------------------------------
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219
220 dma_addr_t
221 dma_map_single(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
222 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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224Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the
3a9ad0b4 225device and returns the DMA address of the memory.
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77f2ea2f 227The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting.
03158a70 228However the dma_API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its
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229direction:
230
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232DMA_NONE no direction (used for debugging)
233DMA_TO_DEVICE data is going from the memory to the device
234DMA_FROM_DEVICE data is coming from the device to the memory
235DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction isn't known
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237
238.. note::
239
240 Not all memory regions in a machine can be mapped by this API.
241 Further, contiguous kernel virtual space may not be contiguous as
242 physical memory. Since this API does not provide any scatter/gather
243 capability, it will fail if the user tries to map a non-physically
244 contiguous piece of memory. For this reason, memory to be mapped by
245 this API should be obtained from sources which guarantee it to be
246 physically contiguous (like kmalloc).
247
248 Further, the DMA address of the memory must be within the
249 dma_mask of the device (the dma_mask is a bit mask of the
250 addressable region for the device, i.e., if the DMA address of
251 the memory ANDed with the dma_mask is still equal to the DMA
252 address, then the device can perform DMA to the memory). To
253 ensure that the memory allocated by kmalloc is within the dma_mask,
254 the driver may specify various platform-dependent flags to restrict
255 the DMA address range of the allocation (e.g., on x86, GFP_DMA
256 guarantees to be within the first 16MB of available DMA addresses,
257 as required by ISA devices).
258
259 Note also that the above constraints on physical contiguity and
260 dma_mask may not apply if the platform has an IOMMU (a device which
261 maps an I/O DMA address to a physical memory address). However, to be
262 portable, device driver writers may *not* assume that such an IOMMU
263 exists.
264
265.. warning::
266
267 Memory coherency operates at a granularity called the cache
268 line width. In order for memory mapped by this API to operate
269 correctly, the mapped region must begin exactly on a cache line
270 boundary and end exactly on one (to prevent two separately mapped
271 regions from sharing a single cache line). Since the cache line size
272 may not be known at compile time, the API will not enforce this
273 requirement. Therefore, it is recommended that driver writers who
274 don't take special care to determine the cache line size at run time
275 only map virtual regions that begin and end on page boundaries (which
276 are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries).
277
278 DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification
279 of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to
280 the device. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this
281 primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device
282 may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see
283 below).
284
285 DMA_FROM_DEVICE synchronisation must be done before the driver
286 accesses data that may be changed by the device. This memory should
287 be treated as read-only by the driver. If the driver needs to write
288 to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below).
289
290 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL requires special handling: it means that the driver
291 isn't sure if the memory was modified before being handed off to the
292 device and also isn't sure if the device will also modify it. Thus,
293 you must always sync bidirectional memory twice: once before the
294 memory is handed off to the device (to make sure all memory changes
295 are flushed from the processor) and once before the data may be
296 accessed after being used by the device (to make sure any processor
297 cache lines are updated with data that the device may have changed).
298
299::
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302 dma_unmap_single(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size,
303 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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305Unmaps the region previously mapped. All the parameters passed in
306must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping
307API.
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310
311 dma_addr_t
312 dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
313 unsigned long offset, size_t size,
314 enum dma_data_direction direction)
315
316 void
317 dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_address, size_t size,
318 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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320API for mapping and unmapping for pages. All the notes and warnings
321for the other mapping APIs apply here. Also, although the <offset>
322and <size> parameters are provided to do partial page mapping, it is
323recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the
324cache width is.
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328 dma_addr_t
329 dma_map_resource(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
330 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
331
332 void
333 dma_unmap_resource(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, size_t size,
334 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
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336API for mapping and unmapping for MMIO resources. All the notes and
337warnings for the other mapping APIs apply here. The API should only be
338used to map device MMIO resources, mapping of RAM is not permitted.
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342 int
343 dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
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346will fail to create a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing
347the returned DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value
348means the mapping could not be created and the driver should take appropriate
349action (e.g. reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later).
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352
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354 dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
03158a70 355 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
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3a9ad0b4 357Returns: the number of DMA address segments mapped (this may be shorter
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358than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are
359physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single
360entry).
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362Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once.
363The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg.
364
77f2ea2f 365As with the other mapping interfaces, dma_map_sg() can fail. When it
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366does, 0 is returned and a driver must take appropriate action. It is
367critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver
368aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and
369corrupting the filesystem.
370
03158a70 371With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this::
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373 int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction);
374 struct scatterlist *sg;
375
79eb0145 376 for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) {
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377 hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg);
378 hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg);
379 }
380
381where nents is the number of entries in the sglist.
382
383The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries
384into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be
385physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it
386mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned.
387
388Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times)
389and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously
390accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above.
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394 void
395 dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
03158a70 396 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
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a12e2c6c 398Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list. All the parameters
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399must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping
400API.
401
402Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of
3a9ad0b4 403DMA address entries returned.
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407 void
408 dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
409 size_t size,
410 enum dma_data_direction direction)
411
412 void
413 dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
414 size_t size,
415 enum dma_data_direction direction)
416
417 void
418 dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
419 int nents,
420 enum dma_data_direction direction)
421
422 void
423 dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
424 int nents,
425 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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f311a724 427Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU
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428and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same
429as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API,
430you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to
431those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync.
432
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436 You must do this:
437
438 - Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device
439 (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction)
440 - After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA
441 (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction
442 - before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is
443 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
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445See also dma_map_single().
446
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448
449 dma_addr_t
450 dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
451 enum dma_data_direction dir,
452 unsigned long attrs)
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454 void
455 dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
456 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
457 unsigned long attrs)
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460 dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
461 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
462 unsigned long attrs)
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464 void
465 dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
466 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
467 unsigned long attrs)
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469The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions
470without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional
00085f1e 471dma_attrs.
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77f2ea2f 473The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and
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474each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt.
475
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477is identical to those of the corresponding function
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478without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs()
479can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc.
480
03158a70 481As an example of the use of the ``*_attrs`` functions, here's how
a75b0a2f 482you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory
03158a70 483for DMA::
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486 /* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-mapping.h and
487 * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */
488 ...
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491 attr |= DMA_ATTR_FOO;
492 ....
493 n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, attr);
494 ....
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496Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its
497presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping
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498routines, e.g.:::
499
500 void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
501 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
502 unsigned long attrs)
503 {
504 ....
505 if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_FOO)
506 /* twizzle the frobnozzle */
507 ....
508 }
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514Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the
515majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that
516don't belong in usual drivers.
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518If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a
519processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the
520API at all.
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524 void *
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525 dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
526 gfp_t flag, unsigned long attrs)
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528Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that when the
529DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flags is passed in the attrs argument, the
530platform will choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory
531as it sees fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform
532that you have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory
533in the driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory.
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535Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will
536guarantee that the sync points become nops.
537
538Warning: Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain. You should
77f2ea2f 539only use this API if you positively know your driver will be
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540required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures
541that simply cannot make consistent memory.
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544
545 void
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546 dma_free_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
547 dma_addr_t dma_handle, unsigned long attrs)
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549Free memory allocated by the dma_alloc_attrs(). All common
550parameters must be identical to those otherwise passed to dma_free_coherent,
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551and the attrs argument must be identical to the attrs passed to
552dma_alloc_attrs().
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556 int
557 dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
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a12e2c6c 559Returns the processor cache alignment. This is the absolute minimum
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560alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping
561memory or doing partial flushes.
562
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565 This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache
566 line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly
567 into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power
568 of two for easy alignment.
569
570::
571
572 void
573 dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
574 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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576Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by dma_alloc_attrs() with
577the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag starting at virtual address vaddr and
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578continuing on for size. Again, you *must* observe the cache line
579boundaries when doing this.
580
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582
583 int
584 dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr,
82c5de0a 585 dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size);
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77f2ea2f 587Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when
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588it's asked for coherent memory for this device.
589
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590phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently
591assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region).
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3a9ad0b4 593device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed
88a984ba 594with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the
a12e2c6c 595dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()).
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597size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE).
598
2436bdcd 599As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of
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600memory may be declared per device.
601
602For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared
603region only at the granularity of a page. For smaller allocations,
604you should use the dma_pool() API.
605
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606Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API
607-------------------------------------------
608
77f2ea2f 609The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be
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610released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With
611the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers
612do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can
613result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems.
614
615To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can
616be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those
617violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable
618debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this
619option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels.
620
621If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping
622about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an
623error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An
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624example warning message may look like this::
625
626 WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448
627 check_unmap+0x203/0x490()
628 Hardware name:
629 forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong
630 function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as
631 single] [unmapped as page]
632 Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169
633 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1
634 Call Trace:
635 <IRQ> [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130
636 [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30
637 [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0
638 [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40
639 [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0
640 [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60
641 [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50
642 [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0
643 [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40
644 [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0
645 [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50
646 [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490
647 [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50
648 [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0
649 [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0
650 [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70
651 [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150
652 [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0
653 [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
654 <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]---
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656The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace
657of the DMA-API call which caused this warning.
658
659Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other
660errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code
661from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can
662be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for
663details.
664
665The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In
666this directory the following files can currently be found:
667
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669dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this
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670 value is not equal to zero the debugging code
671 will print a warning for every error it finds
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672 into the kernel log. Be careful with this
673 option, as it can easily flood your logs.
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03158a70 675dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
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676 if the debugging code is disabled. This can
677 happen when it runs out of memory or if it was
678 disabled at boot time
679
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680dma-api/dump This read-only file contains current DMA
681 mappings.
682
03158a70 683dma-api/error_count This file is read-only and shows the total
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684 numbers of errors found.
685
03158a70 686dma-api/num_errors The number in this file shows how many
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687 warnings will be printed to the kernel log
688 before it stops. This number is initialized to
689 one at system boot and be set by writing into
690 this file
691
03158a70 692dma-api/min_free_entries This read-only file can be read to get the
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693 minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the
694 allocator has ever seen. If this value goes
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695 down to zero the code will attempt to increase
696 nr_total_entries to compensate.
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03158a70 698dma-api/num_free_entries The current number of free dma_debug_entries
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699 in the allocator.
700
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701dma-api/nr_total_entries The total number of dma_debug_entries in the
702 allocator, both free and used.
703
31f43330 704dma-api/driver_filter You can write a name of a driver into this file
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705 to limit the debug output to requests from that
706 particular driver. Write an empty string to
707 that file to disable the filter and see
708 all errors again.
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711If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
712If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
713'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
714Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
715so.
716
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717If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can
718specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the
719driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that
720driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
721
187f9c3f 722When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
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724entries are preallocated at boot - if this is too low for you boot with
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725'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default. Note
726that the code allocates entries in batches, so the exact number of
727preallocated entries may be greater than the actual number requested. The
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728code will print to the kernel log each time it has dynamically allocated
729as many entries as were initially preallocated. This is to indicate that a
730larger preallocation size may be appropriate, or if it happens continually
731that a driver may be leaking mappings.
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734
735 void
736 debug_dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr);
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738dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail
77f2ea2f 739to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and
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740dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by
741debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by
742the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if
743this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that
744leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error()
77f2ea2f 745routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging.