[PATCH] powerpc/dma: Fix invalid DMA mmap behavior

Shawn Anastasio shawn at anastas.io
Thu Jul 18 09:54:37 AEST 2019


The refactor of powerpc DMA functions in commit 6666cc17d780
("powerpc/dma: remove dma_nommu_mmap_coherent") incorrectly
changes the way DMA mappings are handled on powerpc.
Since this change, all mapped pages are marked as cache-inhibited
through the default implementation of arch_dma_mmap_pgprot.
This differs from the previous behavior of only marking pages
in noncoherent mappings as cache-inhibited and has resulted in
sporadic system crashes in certain hardware configurations and
workloads (see Bugzilla).

This commit restores the previous correct behavior by providing
an implementation of arch_dma_mmap_pgprot that only marks
pages in noncoherent mappings as cache-inhibited. As this behavior
should be universal for all powerpc platforms a new file,
dma-generic.c, was created to store it.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204145
Fixes: 6666cc17d780 ("powerpc/dma: remove dma_nommu_mmap_coherent")
Signed-off-by: Shawn Anastasio <shawn at anastas.io>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig             |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile     |  3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-common.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-common.c

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index d8dcd8820369..77f6ebf97113 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if PPC32
 	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
 	select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
+	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_MMAP_PGPROT
 	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
index 56dfa7a2a6f2..ea0c69236789 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ obj-y				:= cputable.o ptrace.o syscalls.o \
 				   signal.o sysfs.o cacheinfo.o time.o \
 				   prom.o traps.o setup-common.o \
 				   udbg.o misc.o io.o misc_$(BITS).o \
-				   of_platform.o prom_parse.o
+				   of_platform.o prom_parse.o \
+				   dma-common.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)		+= setup_64.o sys_ppc32.o \
 				   signal_64.o ptrace32.o \
 				   paca.o nvram_64.o firmware.o
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-common.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5a15f99f4199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-common.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Contains common dma routines for all powerpc platforms.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 Shawn Anastasio (shawn at anastas.io)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/dma-noncoherent.h>
+
+pgprot_t arch_dma_mmap_pgprot(struct device *dev, pgprot_t prot,
+		unsigned long attrs)
+{
+	if (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev))
+		return pgprot_noncached(prot);
+	return prot;
+}
-- 
2.22.0



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