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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 23 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst index 1887d92e8e92..17706dc91ec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst @@ -130,3 +130,11 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the lesser-privileged levels). + +DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE +------------------ + +This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected to +overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any of the +previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows bounce-buffering +implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index dca2b1355bb1..6150d11a607e 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ #define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED (1UL << 9) /* + * This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected + * to overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any + * of the previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows + * bounce-buffering implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. + */ +#define DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE (1UL << 10) + +/* * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform. It can * be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. It is specific to a * given device and there may be a translation between the CPU physical address diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index e58dce93c661..aca0690550e2 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -578,14 +578,10 @@ phys_addr_t swiotlb_tbl_map_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t orig_addr, for (i = 0; i < nr_slots(alloc_size + offset); i++) mem->slots[index + i].orig_addr = slot_addr(orig_addr, i); tlb_addr = slot_addr(mem->start, index) + offset; - /* - * When dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE we could omit the copy from the orig - * to the tlb buffer, if we knew for sure the device will - * overwirte the entire current content. But we don't. Thus - * unconditional bounce may prevent leaking swiotlb content (i.e. - * kernel memory) to user-space. - */ - swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); + if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) && + (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE) || dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || + dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)) + swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); return tlb_addr; } @@ -652,13 +648,10 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr, void swiotlb_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir) { - /* - * Unconditional bounce is necessary to avoid corruption on - * sync_*_for_cpu or dma_ummap_* when the device didn't overwrite - * the whole lengt of the bounce buffer. - */ - swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); - BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir)); + if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL) + swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); + else + BUG_ON(dir != DMA_FROM_DEVICE); } void swiotlb_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr, |