[PATCH 0/3] PCI DMA pseudo-bypass for powernv

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Fri Jun 29 17:34:34 AEST 2018


These patches implement a new set of DMA operations designed to allow
devices that cannot address bit 59 to use more than 32-bit DMA.

The previous implementation for PHB3 assumed contiguous memory, which
is no longer the case on POWER9 and possibly later.  As a result, a new
approach was necessary, which is what this new implementation does.

These patches aren't perfect yet - most notably, there is no
implementation of unmap() - once a TCE is created it is never freed.
For the most part this isn't an issue, but could potentially be a
problem for a device that can't address many bits and maps *a lot* of
memory.

I have a much more complex implementation in the back that I will post
in future, but until that's ready and fully tested, I believe the
drastic performance improvement is worth getting this upstream sooner
rather than later.

Thanks to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Alistair Popple and Timothy Pearson
for their help.

Russell Currey (3):
  powerpc/powernv/pci: Track largest available TCE order per PHB
  powerpc/powernv: DMA operations for discontiguous allocation
  powerpc/powernv/pci: Track TCE tables in debugfs

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h    |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile   |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-dma.c  | 243 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 132 +++++++-----
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h      |  10 +
 5 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-dma.c

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