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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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6
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
17----------------
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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_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
65 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
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67Wraps dma_alloc_coherent() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
68allocation attempt succeeded.
69
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71
72 void
73 dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
74 dma_addr_t dma_handle)
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76Free a region of consistent memory you previously allocated. dev,
77size and dma_handle must all be the same as those passed into
78dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by
79the dma_alloc_coherent().
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81Note that unlike their sibling allocation calls, these routines
82may only be called with IRQs enabled.
83
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77f2ea2f 85Part Ib - Using small DMA-coherent buffers
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87
03158a70 88To get this part of the dma_API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h>
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77f2ea2f 90Many drivers need lots of small DMA-coherent memory regions for DMA
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91descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page
92or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work
77f2ea2f 93much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the DMA-coherent allocator,
1da177e4 94not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints
a12e2c6c 95for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N-byte boundaries.
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96
97
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99
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100 struct dma_pool *
101 dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
102 size_t size, size_t align, size_t alloc);
103
77f2ea2f 104dma_pool_create() initializes a pool of DMA-coherent buffers
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105for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which
106can sleep.
107
e18b890b 108The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size
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109are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware
110alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed
111in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary
112crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated
113from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries.
114
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117 void *
118 dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
119 dma_addr_t *handle)
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121Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
122allocation attempt succeeded.
123
124
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126
127 void *
128 dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
129 dma_addr_t *dma_handle);
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131This allocates memory from the pool; the returned memory will meet the
132size and alignment requirements specified at creation time. Pass
133GFP_ATOMIC to prevent blocking, or if it's permitted (not
134in_interrupt, not holding SMP locks), pass GFP_KERNEL to allow
135blocking. Like dma_alloc_coherent(), this returns two values: an
f311a724 136address usable by the CPU, and the DMA address usable by the pool's
77f2ea2f 137device.
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141 void
142 dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr,
143 dma_addr_t addr);
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1da177e4 145This puts memory back into the pool. The pool is what was passed to
f311a724 146dma_pool_alloc(); the CPU (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what
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147were returned when that routine allocated the memory being freed.
148
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151 void
152 dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool);
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77f2ea2f 154dma_pool_destroy() frees the resources of the pool. It must be
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155called in a context which can sleep. Make sure you've freed all allocated
156memory back to the pool before you destroy it.
157
158
159Part Ic - DMA addressing limitations
160------------------------------------
161
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163
164 int
165 dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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167Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
168streaming and coherent DMA mask parameters if it is.
169
170Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
171
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173
174 int
175 dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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177Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
178parameters if it is.
179
180Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
181
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183
184 int
185 dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
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187Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device
188parameters if it is.
189
190Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not.
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193
194 u64
195 dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev)
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197This API returns the mask that the platform requires to
198operate efficiently. Usually this means the returned mask
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199is the minimum required to cover all of memory. Examining the
200required mask gives drivers with variable descriptor sizes the
201opportunity to use smaller descriptors as necessary.
202
203Requesting the required mask does not alter the current mask. If you
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204wish to take advantage of it, you should issue a dma_set_mask()
205call to set the mask to the value returned.
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206
207
208Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings
209--------------------------------
210
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212
213 dma_addr_t
214 dma_map_single(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
215 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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217Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the
3a9ad0b4 218device and returns the DMA address of the memory.
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77f2ea2f 220The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting.
03158a70 221However the dma_API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its
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222direction:
223
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225DMA_NONE no direction (used for debugging)
226DMA_TO_DEVICE data is going from the memory to the device
227DMA_FROM_DEVICE data is coming from the device to the memory
228DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction isn't known
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229======================= =============================================
230
231.. note::
232
233 Not all memory regions in a machine can be mapped by this API.
234 Further, contiguous kernel virtual space may not be contiguous as
235 physical memory. Since this API does not provide any scatter/gather
236 capability, it will fail if the user tries to map a non-physically
237 contiguous piece of memory. For this reason, memory to be mapped by
238 this API should be obtained from sources which guarantee it to be
239 physically contiguous (like kmalloc).
240
241 Further, the DMA address of the memory must be within the
242 dma_mask of the device (the dma_mask is a bit mask of the
243 addressable region for the device, i.e., if the DMA address of
244 the memory ANDed with the dma_mask is still equal to the DMA
245 address, then the device can perform DMA to the memory). To
246 ensure that the memory allocated by kmalloc is within the dma_mask,
247 the driver may specify various platform-dependent flags to restrict
248 the DMA address range of the allocation (e.g., on x86, GFP_DMA
249 guarantees to be within the first 16MB of available DMA addresses,
250 as required by ISA devices).
251
252 Note also that the above constraints on physical contiguity and
253 dma_mask may not apply if the platform has an IOMMU (a device which
254 maps an I/O DMA address to a physical memory address). However, to be
255 portable, device driver writers may *not* assume that such an IOMMU
256 exists.
257
258.. warning::
259
260 Memory coherency operates at a granularity called the cache
261 line width. In order for memory mapped by this API to operate
262 correctly, the mapped region must begin exactly on a cache line
263 boundary and end exactly on one (to prevent two separately mapped
264 regions from sharing a single cache line). Since the cache line size
265 may not be known at compile time, the API will not enforce this
266 requirement. Therefore, it is recommended that driver writers who
267 don't take special care to determine the cache line size at run time
268 only map virtual regions that begin and end on page boundaries (which
269 are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries).
270
271 DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification
272 of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to
273 the device. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this
274 primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device
275 may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see
276 below).
277
278 DMA_FROM_DEVICE synchronisation must be done before the driver
279 accesses data that may be changed by the device. This memory should
280 be treated as read-only by the driver. If the driver needs to write
281 to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below).
282
283 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL requires special handling: it means that the driver
284 isn't sure if the memory was modified before being handed off to the
285 device and also isn't sure if the device will also modify it. Thus,
286 you must always sync bidirectional memory twice: once before the
287 memory is handed off to the device (to make sure all memory changes
288 are flushed from the processor) and once before the data may be
289 accessed after being used by the device (to make sure any processor
290 cache lines are updated with data that the device may have changed).
291
292::
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294 void
295 dma_unmap_single(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size,
296 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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298Unmaps the region previously mapped. All the parameters passed in
299must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping
300API.
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303
304 dma_addr_t
305 dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
306 unsigned long offset, size_t size,
307 enum dma_data_direction direction)
308
309 void
310 dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_address, size_t size,
311 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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313API for mapping and unmapping for pages. All the notes and warnings
314for the other mapping APIs apply here. Also, although the <offset>
315and <size> parameters are provided to do partial page mapping, it is
316recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the
317cache width is.
318
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321 dma_addr_t
322 dma_map_resource(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
323 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
324
325 void
326 dma_unmap_resource(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, size_t size,
327 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
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329API for mapping and unmapping for MMIO resources. All the notes and
330warnings for the other mapping APIs apply here. The API should only be
331used to map device MMIO resources, mapping of RAM is not permitted.
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334
335 int
336 dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
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338In some circumstances dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and dma_map_resource()
339will fail to create a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing
340the returned DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value
341means the mapping could not be created and the driver should take appropriate
342action (e.g. reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later).
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345
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347 dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
03158a70 348 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
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3a9ad0b4 350Returns: the number of DMA address segments mapped (this may be shorter
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351than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are
352physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single
353entry).
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355Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once.
356The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg.
357
77f2ea2f 358As with the other mapping interfaces, dma_map_sg() can fail. When it
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359does, 0 is returned and a driver must take appropriate action. It is
360critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver
361aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and
362corrupting the filesystem.
363
03158a70 364With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this::
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366 int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction);
367 struct scatterlist *sg;
368
79eb0145 369 for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) {
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370 hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg);
371 hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg);
372 }
373
374where nents is the number of entries in the sglist.
375
376The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries
377into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be
378physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it
379mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned.
380
381Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times)
382and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously
383accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above.
384
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386
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388 dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
03158a70 389 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
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a12e2c6c 391Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list. All the parameters
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392must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping
393API.
394
395Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of
3a9ad0b4 396DMA address entries returned.
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399
400 void
401 dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
402 size_t size,
403 enum dma_data_direction direction)
404
405 void
406 dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
407 size_t size,
408 enum dma_data_direction direction)
409
410 void
411 dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
412 int nents,
413 enum dma_data_direction direction)
414
415 void
416 dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
417 int nents,
418 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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f311a724 420Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU
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421and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same
422as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API,
423you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to
424those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync.
425
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428
429 You must do this:
430
431 - Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device
432 (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction)
433 - After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA
434 (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction
435 - before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is
436 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
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438See also dma_map_single().
439
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440::
441
442 dma_addr_t
443 dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
444 enum dma_data_direction dir,
445 unsigned long attrs)
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447 void
448 dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
449 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
450 unsigned long attrs)
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452 int
453 dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
454 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
455 unsigned long attrs)
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457 void
458 dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
459 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
460 unsigned long attrs)
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462The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions
463without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional
00085f1e 464dma_attrs.
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77f2ea2f 466The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and
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467each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt.
468
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470is identical to those of the corresponding function
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471without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs()
472can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc.
473
03158a70 474As an example of the use of the ``*_attrs`` functions, here's how
a75b0a2f 475you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory
03158a70 476for DMA::
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478 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
479 /* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-mapping.h and
480 * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */
481 ...
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484 attr |= DMA_ATTR_FOO;
485 ....
486 n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, attr);
487 ....
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489Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its
490presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping
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491routines, e.g.:::
492
493 void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
494 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
495 unsigned long attrs)
496 {
497 ....
498 if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_FOO)
499 /* twizzle the frobnozzle */
500 ....
501 }
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505----------------------------
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507Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the
508majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that
509don't belong in usual drivers.
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511If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a
512processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the
513API at all.
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516
517 void *
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518 dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
519 gfp_t flag, unsigned long attrs)
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521Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that when the
522DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flags is passed in the attrs argument, the
523platform will choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory
524as it sees fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform
525that you have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory
526in the driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory.
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528Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will
529guarantee that the sync points become nops.
530
531Warning: Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain. You should
77f2ea2f 532only use this API if you positively know your driver will be
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533required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures
534that simply cannot make consistent memory.
535
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537
538 void
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539 dma_free_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
540 dma_addr_t dma_handle, unsigned long attrs)
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542Free memory allocated by the dma_alloc_attrs(). All parameters common
543parameters must identical to those otherwise passed to dma_fre_coherent,
544and the attrs argument must be identical to the attrs passed to
545dma_alloc_attrs().
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548
549 int
550 dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
1da177e4 551
a12e2c6c 552Returns the processor cache alignment. This is the absolute minimum
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553alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping
554memory or doing partial flushes.
555
03158a70 556.. note::
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558 This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache
559 line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly
560 into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power
561 of two for easy alignment.
562
563::
564
565 void
566 dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
567 enum dma_data_direction direction)
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569Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by dma_alloc_attrs() with
570the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag starting at virtual address vaddr and
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571continuing on for size. Again, you *must* observe the cache line
572boundaries when doing this.
573
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575
576 int
577 dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr,
578 dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size, int
579 flags)
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77f2ea2f 581Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when
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583
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585assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region).
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3a9ad0b4 587device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed
88a984ba 588with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the
a12e2c6c 589dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()).
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591size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE).
592
77f2ea2f 593flags can be ORed together and are:
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596 Do not allow dma_alloc_coherent() to fall back to system memory when
597 it's out of memory in the declared region.
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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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608 void
609 dma_release_declared_memory(struct device *dev)
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611Remove the memory region previously declared from the system. This
612API performs *no* in-use checking for this region and will return
613unconditionally having removed all the required structures. It is the
a12e2c6c 614driver's job to ensure that no parts of this memory region are
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616
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619 void *
620 dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied(struct device *dev,
621 dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size)
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623This is used to occupy specific regions of the declared space
624(dma_alloc_coherent() will hand out the first free region it finds).
625
a12e2c6c 626device_addr is the *device* address of the region requested.
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a12e2c6c 628size is the size (and should be a page-sized multiple).
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630The return value will be either a pointer to the processor virtual
631address of the memory, or an error (via PTR_ERR()) if any part of the
632region is occupied.
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634Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API
635-------------------------------------------
636
77f2ea2f 637The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be
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638released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With
639the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers
640do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can
641result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems.
642
643To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can
644be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those
645violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable
646debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this
647option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels.
648
649If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping
650about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an
651error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An
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653
654 WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448
655 check_unmap+0x203/0x490()
656 Hardware name:
657 forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong
658 function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as
659 single] [unmapped as page]
660 Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169
661 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1
662 Call Trace:
663 <IRQ> [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130
664 [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30
665 [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0
666 [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40
667 [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0
668 [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60
669 [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50
670 [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0
671 [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40
672 [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0
673 [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50
674 [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490
675 [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50
676 [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0
677 [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0
678 [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70
679 [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150
680 [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0
681 [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
682 <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]---
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684The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace
685of the DMA-API call which caused this warning.
686
687Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other
688errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code
689from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can
690be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for
691details.
692
693The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In
694this directory the following files can currently be found:
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697dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this
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699 will print a warning for every error it finds
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700 into the kernel log. Be careful with this
701 option, as it can easily flood your logs.
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03158a70 703dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
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704 if the debugging code is disabled. This can
705 happen when it runs out of memory or if it was
706 disabled at boot time
707
03158a70 708dma-api/error_count This file is read-only and shows the total
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709 numbers of errors found.
710
03158a70 711dma-api/num_errors The number in this file shows how many
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712 warnings will be printed to the kernel log
713 before it stops. This number is initialized to
714 one at system boot and be set by writing into
715 this file
716
03158a70 717dma-api/min_free_entries This read-only file can be read to get the
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718 minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the
719 allocator has ever seen. If this value goes
720 down to zero the code will disable itself
721 because it is not longer reliable.
722
03158a70 723dma-api/num_free_entries The current number of free dma_debug_entries
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725
03158a70 726dma-api/driver-filter You can write a name of a driver into this file
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727 to limit the debug output to requests from that
728 particular driver. Write an empty string to
729 that file to disable the filter and see
730 all errors again.
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733If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
734If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
735'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
736Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
737so.
738
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739If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can
740specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the
741driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that
742driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
743
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744When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
745out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number
746of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you
747boot with 'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the
748architectural default.
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751
752 void
753 debug_dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr);
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755dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail
77f2ea2f 756to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and
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757dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by
758debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by
759the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if
760this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that
761leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error()
77f2ea2f 762routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging.