Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-28T21:55:40Z

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:38 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/06/22 19:08, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I see two other problems with your patch though:
> >
> > a) you still duplicate the cache handling: the cache_clear()/cache_push()
> > is supposed to already be done by dma_map_single() when the device
> > is not cache-coherent.
>
> That's one of the 'liberties' I alluded to. The reason I left these in
> is that I'm none too certain what device feature the DMA API uses to
> decide a device isn't cache-coherent. If it's dev->coherent_dma_mask,
> the way I set up the device in the a3000 driver should leave the
> coherent mask unchanged. For the Zorro drivers, devices are set up to
> use the same storage to store normal and coherent masks - something we
> most likely want to change. I need to think about the ramifications of
> that.
>
> Note that zorro_esp.c uses dma_sync_single_for_device() and uses a 32
> bit coherent DMA mask which does work OK. I might ask Adrian to test a
> change to only set dev->dma_mask, and drop the
> dma_sync_single_for_device() calls if there's any doubt on this aspect.

The "coherent_mask" is independent of the cache flushing. On some
architectures, a device can indicate whether it needs cache management
or not to guarantee coherency, but on m68k it appears that we always
assume it does, see arch/m68k/kernel/dma.c

> > b) The bounce buffer is never mapped here, instead you have the
> > virt_to_phys() here, which is not the same. I think you need to map
> > the pointer that actually gets passed down to the device after deciding
> > to use a bouce buffer or not.
>
> I hadn't realized that I can map the bounce buffer just as it's done for
> the SCp data buffer. Should have been obvious, but I'm still learning
> about the DMA API.
>
> I've updated the patch now, will re-send as part of a complete series
> once done.

I suppose you can just drop the bounce buffer if this just comes
from kmalloc().

Arnd