Re: [PATCH v5 19/38] drm: panfrost: fix common struct sg_table related issues

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM Marek Szyprowski
[off-list ref] wrote:

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 <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
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For more information, see '[PATCH v5 00/38] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents
vs. orig_nents misuse' thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200513132114.6046-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com/T/ (local)
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 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

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