Re: use exact allocation for dma coherent memory

Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-20T10:51:24Z

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 01:29:03PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Yes. This will blow up badly on many platforms, as sq->queue
> > might be vmapped, ioremapped, come from a pool without page backing.
>
> Gah, this addr gets fed into io_remap_pfn_range/remap_pfn_range too..
>
> Potnuri, you should fix this..
>
> You probably need to use dma_mmap_from_dev_coherent() in the mmap ?

The function to use is dma_mmap_coherent, dma_mmap_from_dev_coherent is
just an internal helper.

That beiŋ said the drivers/infiniband code has a lot of
*remap_pfn_range, and a lot of them look like they might be for
DMA memory.