Re: [PATCH] powerpc/npu-dma: Remove NPU DMA ops

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-10-30T13:09:57Z

On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 13:58 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Please take my patch instead. We have a kernel polcity to not keep
> dead code around, and everyone including Linus and the attending IBMers
> confirmed this.

Let's call a cat a cat ... ;-)

It's not *dead* code. It's code that is used by an out of tree driver
(which also happen not to be open source).

Just making things clear for everybody.

Cheers,
Ben.

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:02:03PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> > The NPU IOMMU is setup to mirror the parent PCIe device IOMMU
> > setup. Therefore it does not make sense to call dma operations such as
> > dma_map_page, etc. directly on these devices. The existing dma-ops
> > simply print a warning if they are ever called, however this is
> > unnecessary and the warnings are likely to go unnoticed.
> >
> > It is instead simpler to remove these operations and let the generic
> > DMA code print warnings (eg. via a NULL pointer deref) in cases of
> > buggy drivers attempting dma operations on NVLink devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c | 64 ++------------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> > index 6f60e0931922..75b935252981 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> > @@ -102,63 +102,6 @@ struct pci_dev *pnv_pci_get_npu_dev(struct pci_dev *gpdev, int index)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnv_pci_get_npu_dev);
> >
> > -#define NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED() \
> > - dev_err_once(dev, "%s operation unsupported for NVLink devices\n", \
> > - __func__)
> > -
> > -static void *dma_npu_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> > - dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag,
> > - unsigned long attrs)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > - return NULL;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static void dma_npu_free(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> > - void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
> > - unsigned long attrs)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > -}
> > -
> > -static dma_addr_t dma_npu_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
> > - unsigned long offset, size_t size,
> > - enum dma_data_direction direction,
> > - unsigned long attrs)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static int dma_npu_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sglist,
> > - int nelems, enum dma_data_direction direction,
> > - unsigned long attrs)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static int dma_npu_dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static u64 dma_npu_get_required_mask(struct device *dev)
> > -{
> > - NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> > - return 0;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static const struct dma_map_ops dma_npu_ops = {
> > - .map_page = dma_npu_map_page,
> > - .map_sg = dma_npu_map_sg,
> > - .alloc = dma_npu_alloc,
> > - .free = dma_npu_free,
> > - .dma_supported = dma_npu_dma_supported,
> > - .get_required_mask = dma_npu_get_required_mask,
> > -};
> > -
> > /*
> > * Returns the PE assoicated with the PCI device of the given
> > * NPU. Returns the linked pci device if pci_dev != NULL.
> > @@ -270,10 +213,11 @@ static void pnv_npu_dma_set_32(struct pnv_ioda_pe *npe)
> > rc = pnv_npu_set_window(npe, 0, gpe->table_group.tables[0]);
> >
> > /*
> > - * We don't initialise npu_pe->tce32_table as we always use
> > - * dma_npu_ops which are nops.
> > + * NVLink devices use the same TCE table configuration as
> > + * their parent device so drivers shouldn't be doing DMA
> > + * operations directly on these devices.
> > */
> > - set_dma_ops(&npe->pdev->dev, &dma_npu_ops);
> > + set_dma_ops(&npe->pdev->dev, NULL);
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > --
> > 2.11.0
>
> ---end quoted text---