Re: DPAA2 triggers, [PATCH] dma debug: report -EEXIST errors in add_dma_entry

Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-01T04:20:07Z

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 03:45:06PM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> [ 245.927020] fsl_dpaa2_eth dpni.3: scather-gather idx 0 P=20a7320000 N=20a7320 D=20a7320000 L=30 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL dma map error check not applicable·
> [ 245.927048] fsl_dpaa2_eth dpni.3: scather-gather idx 1 P=20a7320030 N=20a7320 D=20a7320030 L=5a8 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL dma map error check not applicable
> [ 245.927062] DMA-API: cacheline tracking EEXIST, overlapping mappings aren't supported
>
> The first line is the dump of the dma_debug_entry which is already present
> in the radix tree and the second one is the entry which just triggered
> the EEXIST.
>
> As we can see, they are not actually overlapping, at least from my
> understanding. The first one starts at 0x20a7320000 with a size 0x30
> and the second one at 0x20a7320030.

They overlap the cache lines. Which means if you use this driver
on a system that is not dma coherent you will corrupt data.