Also try to clarify a bit when dma_buf_begin/end_cpu_access should be called.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Cc: Sumit Semwal sumit.semwal@linaro.org Cc: "Christian König" christian.koenig@amd.com Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ include/linux/dma-buf.h | 25 +++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c index e63684d4cd90..a12fdffa130f 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c @@ -1001,15 +1001,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_move_notify); * vmalloc space might be limited and result in vmap calls failing. * * Interfaces:: + * * void *dma_buf_vmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf) * void dma_buf_vunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, void *vaddr) * * The vmap call can fail if there is no vmap support in the exporter, or if - * it runs out of vmalloc space. Fallback to kmap should be implemented. Note - * that the dma-buf layer keeps a reference count for all vmap access and - * calls down into the exporter's vmap function only when no vmapping exists, - * and only unmaps it once. Protection against concurrent vmap/vunmap calls is - * provided by taking the dma_buf->lock mutex. + * it runs out of vmalloc space. Note that the dma-buf layer keeps a reference + * count for all vmap access and calls down into the exporter's vmap function + * only when no vmapping exists, and only unmaps it once. Protection against + * concurrent vmap/vunmap calls is provided by taking the &dma_buf.lock mutex. * * - For full compatibility on the importer side with existing userspace * interfaces, which might already support mmap'ing buffers. This is needed in @@ -1098,6 +1098,11 @@ static int __dma_buf_begin_cpu_access(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, * dma_buf_end_cpu_access(). Only when cpu access is braketed by both calls is * it guaranteed to be coherent with other DMA access. * + * This function will also wait for any DMA transactions tracked through + * implicit synchronization in &dma_buf.resv. For DMA transactions with explicit + * synchronization this function will only ensure cache coherency, callers must + * ensure synchronization with such DMA transactions on their own. + * * Can return negative error values, returns 0 on success. */ int dma_buf_begin_cpu_access(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, @@ -1199,7 +1204,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_mmap); * This call may fail due to lack of virtual mapping address space. * These calls are optional in drivers. The intended use for them * is for mapping objects linear in kernel space for high use objects. - * Please attempt to use kmap/kunmap before thinking about these interfaces. + * + * To ensure coherency users must call dma_buf_begin_cpu_access() and + * dma_buf_end_cpu_access() around any cpu access performed through this + * mapping. * * Returns 0 on success, or a negative errno code otherwise. */ diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h index cf72699cb2bc..7eca37c8b10c 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h @@ -183,24 +183,19 @@ struct dma_buf_ops { * @begin_cpu_access: * * This is called from dma_buf_begin_cpu_access() and allows the - * exporter to ensure that the memory is actually available for cpu - * access - the exporter might need to allocate or swap-in and pin the - * backing storage. The exporter also needs to ensure that cpu access is - * coherent for the access direction. The direction can be used by the - * exporter to optimize the cache flushing, i.e. access with a different + * exporter to ensure that the memory is actually coherent for cpu + * access. The exporter also needs to ensure that cpu access is coherent + * for the access direction. The direction can be used by the exporter + * to optimize the cache flushing, i.e. access with a different * direction (read instead of write) might return stale or even bogus * data (e.g. when the exporter needs to copy the data to temporary * storage). * - * This callback is optional. + * Note that this is both called through the DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC IOCTL + * command for userspace mappings established through @mmap, and also + * for kernel mappings established with @vmap. * - * FIXME: This is both called through the DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC command - * from userspace (where storage shouldn't be pinned to avoid handing - * de-factor mlock rights to userspace) and for the kernel-internal - * users of the various kmap interfaces, where the backing storage must - * be pinned to guarantee that the atomic kmap calls can succeed. Since - * there's no in-kernel users of the kmap interfaces yet this isn't a - * real problem. + * This callback is optional. * * Returns: * @@ -216,9 +211,7 @@ struct dma_buf_ops { * * This is called from dma_buf_end_cpu_access() when the importer is * done accessing the CPU. The exporter can use this to flush caches and - * unpin any resources pinned in @begin_cpu_access. - * The result of any dma_buf kmap calls after end_cpu_access is - * undefined. + * undo anything else done in @begin_cpu_access. * * This callback is optional. *