From d27fb99f62af7b79c542d161aa5155ed57271ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Murphy Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:42:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dma-mapping: relax warning for per-device areas The reasons why dma_free_attrs() should not be called from IRQ context are not necessarily obvious and somewhat buried in the development history, so let's start by documenting the warning itself to help anyone who does happen to hit it and wonder what the deal is. However, this check turns out to be slightly over-restrictive for the way that per-device memory has been spliced into the general API, since for that case we know that dma_declare_coherent_memory() has created an appropriate CPU mapping for the entire area and nothing dynamic should be happening. Given that the usage model for per-device memory is often more akin to streaming DMA than 'real' coherent DMA (e.g. allocating and freeing space to copy short-lived packets in and out), it is also somewhat more reasonable for those operations to happen in IRQ handlers for such devices. Therefore, let's move the irqs_disabled() check down past the per-device area hook, so that that gets a chance to resolve the request before we reach definite "you're doing it wrong" territory. Reported-by: Fredrik Noring Tested-by: Fredrik Noring Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index f9cc309507d9..1db6a6b46d0d 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -538,10 +538,17 @@ static inline void dma_free_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, const struct dma_map_ops *ops = get_dma_ops(dev); BUG_ON(!ops); - WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()); if (dma_release_from_dev_coherent(dev, get_order(size), cpu_addr)) return; + /* + * On non-coherent platforms which implement DMA-coherent buffers via + * non-cacheable remaps, ops->free() may call vunmap(). Thus getting + * this far in IRQ context is a) at risk of a BUG_ON() or trying to + * sleep on some machines, and b) an indication that the driver is + * probably misusing the coherent API anyway. + */ + WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()); if (!ops->free || !cpu_addr) return;