Re: [PATCH] net: ep93xx_eth: drop GFP_DMA from memory allocations

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:59:46PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> FYI, I just enabled DMA debugging and I've got:
> 
> [    1.980000] WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:911 check_sync+0x460/0x510()
> [    1.980000] NULL NULL: DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x00000000c5a11800] [size=78 bytes]

That's because of the 'allocate one buffer, map it once, then treat it
as two buffers' thing.  DMA API debugging requires that the struct
device, and device address match:

static struct dma_debug_entry *hash_bucket_find(struct hash_bucket *bucket,
                                                struct dma_debug_entry *ref)
{
        struct dma_debug_entry *entry, *ret = NULL;
        int matches = 0, match_lvl, last_lvl = 0;

        list_for_each_entry(entry, &bucket->list, list) {
                if ((entry->dev_addr != ref->dev_addr) ||
                    (entry->dev != ref->dev))
                        continue;

so the practice of using dma_sync_single_for_xxx() with partial buffers
is prohibited by this code (which I've always believed to be the right
answer.)  I've always believed that dma_sync_single_range_for_xxx() is
the correct interface for doing this kind of thing.

Others may have a different view, in which case _something_ needs to get
fixed because their view is inconsistent with the debugging code!