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c1f66bf6
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Mar 10, 2002
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David S. Miller
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Most of the 64bit platforms have special hardware that translates bus
addresses (DMA addresses) into physical addresses. This is similar to
how page tables and/or a TLB translates virtual addresses to physical
addresses on a
cpu
. This is needed so that e.g. PCI devices can
addresses on a
CPU
. This is needed so that e.g. PCI devices can
access with a Single Address Cycle (32bit DMA address) any page in the
64bit physical address space. Previously in Linux those 64bit
platforms had to set artificial limits on the maximum RAM size in the
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What memory is DMA'able?
The first piece of information you must know is what kernel memory can
be used with the DMA mapping faciliti
t
es. There has been an unwritten
be used with the DMA mapping facilities. There has been an unwritten
set of rules regarding this, and this text is an attempt to finally
write them down.
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3) Ignore this device and do not initialize it.
It is recommended that your driver print a kernel KERN_WARNING message
when you end up performing either #2 or #
2
. In this manner, if a user
when you end up performing either #2 or #
3
. In this manner, if a user
of your driver reports that performance is bad or that the device is not
even detected, you can ask them for the kernel messages to find out
exactly why.
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If your 64-bit device is going to be an enormous consumer of DMA
mappings, this can be problematic since the DMA mappings are a
finite resource on many platforms. Please see the "DAC Addressing
for Address Space Hungry Devices" setion near the end of this
for Address Space Hungry Devices" se
c
tion near the end of this
document for how to handle this case.
Finally, if your device can only drive the low 24-bits of
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- Consistent DMA mappings which are usually mapped at driver
initialization, unmapped at the end and for which the hardware should
guarantee that the device and the
cpu
can access the data
guarantee that the device and the
CPU
can access the data
in parallel and will see updates made by each other without any
explicit software flushing.
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- Device firmware microcode executed out of
main memory.
The invariant these examples all require is that any
cpu
store
The invariant these examples all require is that any
CPU
store
to memory is immediately visible to the device, and vice
versa. Consistent mappings guarantee this.
IMPORTANT: Consistent DMA memory does not preclude the usage of
proper memory barriers. The
cpu
may reorder stores to
proper memory barriers. The
CPU
may reorder stores to
consistent memory just as it may normal memory. Example:
if it is important for the device to see the first word
of a descriptor updated before the second, you must do
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the pci_pool interface, described below.
The consistent DMA mapping interfaces, for non-NULL dev, will always
return a DMA address which is SAC (Single Address Cycle) address
i
ble.
return a DMA address which is SAC (Single Address Cycle) address
a
ble.
Even if the device indicates (via PCI dma mask) that it may address
the upper 32-bits and thus perform DAC cycles, consistent allocation
will still only return 32-bit PCI addresses for DMA. This is true
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Note that for streaming type mappings you must either use these
interfaces, or the dynamic mapping interfaces above. You may not mix
usage of both for the same device. Such an act is illegal and is
guar
e
nteed to put a banana in your tailpipe.
guar
a
nteed to put a banana in your tailpipe.
However, consistent mappings may in fact be used in conjunction with
these interfaces. Remember that, as defined, consistent mappings are
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use the following interfaces if this routine fails.
Next, DMA addresses using this API are kept track of using the
dma64_addr_t type. It is guar
e
nteed to be big enough to hold any
dma64_addr_t type. It is guar
a
nteed to be big enough to hold any
DAC address the platform layer will give to you from the following
routines. If you have consistent mappings as well, you still
use plain dma_addr_t to keep track of those.
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PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
It really should be self-explanatory. We treat the ADDR and LEN
sep
e
rately, because it is possible for an implementation to only
sep
a
rately, because it is possible for an implementation to only
need the address in order to perform the unmap operation.
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