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| author | Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]> | 2020-06-19 12:36:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> | 2020-06-25 16:34:54 +0200 |
| commit | 92cd1b5d65f5c67147c7da39a3c2ad7e6ff81027 (patch) | |
| tree | ef6dfde8ee71d318ae820dc4c50c4b3dbd8290c9 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin | |
| parent | 8c589e1794a31e9a381916b0280260ab601e4d6e (diff) | |
staging: ion: fix common struct sg_table related issues
The Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt states that the dma_map_sg() function
returns the number of the created entries in the DMA address space.
However the subsequent calls to the dma_sync_sg_for_{device,cpu}() and
dma_unmap_sg must be called with the original number of the entries
passed to the dma_map_sg().
struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a non-contiguous
memory buffer, used commonly in the DRM and graphics subsystems. It
consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses (sgl entry),
as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages (orig_nents entry)
and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).
It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg()
function.
To avoid such issues, lets use a common dma-mapping wrappers operating
directly on the struct sg_table objects and use scatterlist page
iterators where possible. This, almost always, hides references to the
nents and orig_nents entries, making the code robust, easier to follow
and copy/paste safe.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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