[PATCH v5 01/38] dma-mapping: add generic helpers for mapping sgtable objects

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Wed May 13 13:32:08 UTC 2020


struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a memory
buffer. It consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses
(sgl entry), as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages
(orig_nents entry) and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).

It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg
function.

To avoid such issues, let's introduce a common wrappers operating directly
on the struct sg_table objects, which take care of the proper use of
the nents and orig_nents entries.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com> 
---
For more information, see '[PATCH v5 00/38] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents
vs. orig_nents misuse' thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200513132114.6046-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com/T/
---
 include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index b43116a..b50fe36 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -609,6 +609,84 @@ static inline void dma_sync_single_range_for_device(struct device *dev,
 	return dma_sync_single_for_device(dev, addr + offset, size, dir);
 }
 
+/**
+ * dma_map_sgtable - Map the given buffer for DMA
+ * @dev:	The device for which to perform the DMA operation
+ * @sgt:	The sg_table object describing the buffer
+ * @dir:	DMA direction
+ * @attrs:	Optional DMA attributes for the map operation
+ *
+ * Maps a buffer described by a scatterlist stored in the given sg_table
+ * object for the @dir DMA operation by the @dev device. After success
+ * the ownership for the buffer is transferred to the DMA domain. One has
+ * to call dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu() or dma_unmap_sgtable() to move the
+ * ownership of the buffer back to the CPU domain before touching the
+ * buffer by the CPU.
+ * Returns 0 on success or -EINVAL on error during mapping the buffer.
+ */
+static inline int dma_map_sgtable(struct device *dev, struct sg_table *sgt,
+		enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
+{
+	int n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents, dir, attrs);
+
+	if (n <= 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	sgt->nents = n;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * dma_unmap_sgtable - Unmap the given buffer for DMA
+ * @dev:	The device for which to perform the DMA operation
+ * @sgt:	The sg_table object describing the buffer
+ * @dir:	DMA direction
+ * @attrs:	Optional DMA attributes for the unmap operation
+ *
+ * Unmaps a buffer described by a scatterlist stored in the given sg_table
+ * object for the @dir DMA operation by the @dev device. After this function
+ * the ownership of the buffer is transferred back to the CPU domain.
+ */
+static inline void dma_unmap_sgtable(struct device *dev, struct sg_table *sgt,
+		enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
+{
+	dma_unmap_sg_attrs(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents, dir, attrs);
+}
+
+/**
+ * dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu - Synchronize the given buffer for CPU access
+ * @dev:	The device for which to perform the DMA operation
+ * @sgt:	The sg_table object describing the buffer
+ * @dir:	DMA direction
+ *
+ * Performs the needed cache synchronization and moves the ownership of the
+ * buffer back to the CPU domain, so it is safe to perform any access to it
+ * by the CPU. Before doing any further DMA operations, one has to transfer
+ * the ownership of the buffer back to the DMA domain by calling the
+ * dma_sync_sgtable_for_device().
+ */
+static inline void dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
+		struct sg_table *sgt, enum dma_data_direction dir)
+{
+	dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents, dir);
+}
+
+/**
+ * dma_sync_sgtable_for_device - Synchronize the given buffer for DMA
+ * @dev:	The device for which to perform the DMA operation
+ * @sgt:	The sg_table object describing the buffer
+ * @dir:	DMA direction
+ *
+ * Performs the needed cache synchronization and moves the ownership of the
+ * buffer back to the DMA domain, so it is safe to perform the DMA operation.
+ * Once finished, one has to call dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu() or
+ * dma_unmap_sgtable().
+ */
+static inline void dma_sync_sgtable_for_device(struct device *dev,
+		struct sg_table *sgt, enum dma_data_direction dir)
+{
+	dma_sync_sg_for_device(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents, dir);
+}
+
 #define dma_map_single(d, a, s, r) dma_map_single_attrs(d, a, s, r, 0)
 #define dma_unmap_single(d, a, s, r) dma_unmap_single_attrs(d, a, s, r, 0)
 #define dma_map_sg(d, s, n, r) dma_map_sg_attrs(d, s, n, r, 0)
-- 
1.9.1



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