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SubjectRe: IB: Add DMA mapping functions to allow device drivers to interpose
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On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:59:45 GMT
> Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > IB: Add DMA mapping functions to allow device drivers to interpose
> >
> > The QLogic InfiniPath HCAs use programmed I/O instead of HW DMA.
> > This patch allows a verbs device driver to interpose on DMA mapping
> > function calls in order to avoid relying on bus_to_virt() and
> > phys_to_virt() to undo the mappings created by dma_map_single(),
> > dma_map_sg(), etc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
>
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h: In function 'ib_dma_alloc_coherent':
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:1635: warning: passing argument 3 of 'dma_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
> In file included from drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h:41,
> from drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_dev.h:53,
> from drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c:44:
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h: In function 'ib_dma_alloc_coherent':
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:1635: warning: passing argument 3 of 'dma_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
>
>
> That u64 needs to become a dma_addr_t. That means that
> ib_dma_mapping_ops.alloc_coherent() and ib_dma_mapping_ops.free_coherent() are
> wrong as well.
>
> > +struct ib_dma_mapping_ops {
> > ...
> > + void *(*alloc_coherent)(struct ib_device *dev,
> > + size_t size,
> > + u64 *dma_handle,
> > + gfp_t flag);
> > + void (*free_coherent)(struct ib_device *dev,
> > + size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
> > + u64 dma_handle);
> > +};
>
> I'd have picked this up if it had been in git-infiniband for even a couple
> of days. I'm assuming this all got slammed into mainline because of the
> merge window thing.
>
> I cannot find these patches on the kernel mailing list. I cannot find the
> pull request anywhere.
>
> > +static inline u64 ib_dma_map_single(struct ib_device *dev,
> > + void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
> > + enum dma_data_direction direction)
>
> no, dma_map_single() returns a dma_addr_t.

ib_dma_map_single() allows the ib_ipath device driver to interpose
on IOMMU allocations and not do them by returning the kernel
virtual address as the "DMA address". I started with dma_addr_t
but it was pointed out to me that sparc64 defines dma_addr_t
as u32. This would cause addresses to be truncated.
Also, I chose u64 because the return value from ib_dma_*() is
stored in the ib_sge.addr field which is u64.

My preference would be to change the offending uses of dma_addr_t
to u64. Do you have a better solution?

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