[bug report] drm/ttm: add transparent huge page support for DMA allocations v2

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Jun 27 14:06:27 UTC 2019


Hello Christian König,

The patch 648bc3574716: "drm/ttm: add transparent huge page support
for DMA allocations v2" from Jul 6, 2017, leads to the following
static checker warning:

	drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c:314 __ttm_dma_alloc_page()
	error: 'vaddr' came from dma_alloc_coherent() so we can't do virt_to_phys()

drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c
   295  static struct dma_page *__ttm_dma_alloc_page(struct dma_pool *pool)
   296  {
   297          struct dma_page *d_page;
   298          unsigned long attrs = 0;
   299          void *vaddr;
   300  
   301          d_page = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dma_page), GFP_KERNEL);
   302          if (!d_page)
   303                  return NULL;
   304  
   305          if (pool->type & IS_HUGE)
   306                  attrs = DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN;
   307  
   308          vaddr = dma_alloc_attrs(pool->dev, pool->size, &d_page->dma,
   309                                  pool->gfp_flags, attrs);
   310          if (vaddr) {
   311                  if (is_vmalloc_addr(vaddr))
   312                          d_page->p = vmalloc_to_page(vaddr);
   313                  else
   314                          d_page->p = virt_to_page(vaddr);

Christoph was explaining this earlier and I don't think it's sufficient
to just check is_vmalloc_addr().  See https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/17/155
Apparently the vaddr might not have a page backing...

(I am a newbie to this so I may be wrong or have misunderstood also).

   315                  d_page->vaddr = (unsigned long)vaddr;
   316                  if (pool->type & IS_HUGE)
   317                          d_page->vaddr |= VADDR_FLAG_HUGE_POOL;
   318          } else {
   319                  kfree(d_page);
   320                  d_page = NULL;
   321          }
   322          return d_page;
   323  }

regards,
dan carpenter


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