On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:55:00 +0100
Robin Murphy [off-list ref] wrote:

On 27/06/2023 11:24 am, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 11:54:23AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:  

quoted

+/**
+ * is_swiotlb_active() - check if the software IO TLB is initialized
+ * @dev:	Device to check, or %NULL for the default IO TLB.
+ */
  bool is_swiotlb_active(struct device *dev)
  {
-	struct io_tlb_mem *mem = dev->dma_io_tlb_mem;
+	struct io_tlb_mem *mem = dev
+		? dev->dma_io_tlb_mem
+		: &io_tlb_default_mem;  

That's impossible to read and maintain over time, sorry.

Please use real "if () else" lines, so that it can be maintained over
time.  

Moreover, it makes for a horrible interface anyway. If there's a need 
for a non-specific "is SWIOTLB present at all?" check unrelated to any 
particular device (which arguably still smells of poking into 
implementation details...), please encapsulate it in its own distinct 
helper like, say, is_swiotlb_present(void).

However, the more I think about it, the more I doubt that logic like 
octeon_pci_setup() can continue to work properly at all if SWIOTLB 
allocation becomes dynamic... :/

Good, so I'm not alone. I don't know enough of the Octeon hardware to
understand how much magic is behind these PCI BARs and why one of them
should be (sometimes) programmed the way it is.

OTOH it doesn't seem to me that this platform forces DMA through
SWIOTLB. At least all calls to swiotlb_init() under arch/mips take this
form:

	swiotlb_init(true, SWIOTLB_VERBOSE);

This makes me believe that this PCI BAR setup is merely an optimization.

However, if nobody has a clear answer, a fallback solution is to stay
on the safe side and add a flag to struct io_tlb_mem whether SWIOTLB
can grow dynamically. The helper function would then set this flag and
make sure that on this Octeon platform, the SWIOTLB stays restricted to
the default pool.

Hopefully, Thomas Bogendoerfer can shed some light on that code.

Petr T

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