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Commit 3b7a6418 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Linus Torvalds
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dma debug: account for cachelines and read-only mappings in overlap tracking

While debug_dma_assert_idle() checks if a given *page* is actively
undergoing dma the valid granularity of a dma mapping is a *cacheline*.
Sander's testing shows that the warning message "DMA-API: exceeded 7
overlapping mappings of pfn..." is falsely triggering.  The test is
simply mapping multiple cachelines in a given page.

Ultimately we want overlap tracking to be valid as it is a real api
violation, so we need to track active mappings by cachelines.  Update
the active dma tracking to use the page-frame-relative cacheline of the
mapping as the key, and update debug_dma_assert_idle() to check for all
possible mapped cachelines for a given page.

However, the need to track active mappings is only relevant when the
dma-mapping is writable by the device.  In fact it is fairly standard
for read-only mappings to have hundreds or thousands of overlapping
mappings at once.  Limiting the overlap tracking to writable
(!DMA_TO_DEVICE) eliminates this class of false-positive overlap
reports.

Note, the radix gang lookup is sub-optimal.  It would be best if it
stopped fetching entries once the search passed a page boundary.
Nevertheless, this implementation does not perturb the original net_dma
failing case.  That is to say the extra overhead does not show up in
terms of making the failing case pass due to a timing change.

References:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=139232263419315&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=139217088107122&w=2



Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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