# Re: \[PATCH 22/28\] sgiseeq: convert from dma\_cache\_sync to dma\_sync\_single\_for\_device

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2020-09-01 17:16:48 
- List: linux-doc
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2020/09/6090655
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/alsa-devel/2020/08/6073543/t.md

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On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:22:09PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 08:55:49AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Use the proper modern API to transfer cache ownership for incoherent DMA.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c | 12 ++++++++----
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
> > > index 39599bbb5d45b6..f91dae16d69a19 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
> > > @@ -112,14 +112,18 @@ struct sgiseeq_private {
> > >  
> > >  static inline void dma_sync_desc_cpu(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
> > >  {
> > > -	dma_cache_sync(dev->dev.parent, addr, sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc),
> > > -		       DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> > > +	struct sgiseeq_private *sp = netdev_priv(dev);
> > > +
> > > +	dma_sync_single_for_cpu(dev->dev.parent, VIRT_TO_DMA(sp, addr),
> > > +			sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc), DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  static inline void dma_sync_desc_dev(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
> > >  {
> > > -	dma_cache_sync(dev->dev.parent, addr, sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc),
> > > -		       DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> > > +	struct sgiseeq_private *sp = netdev_priv(dev);
> > > +
> > > +	dma_sync_single_for_device(dev->dev.parent, VIRT_TO_DMA(sp, addr),
> > > +			sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc), DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> > >  }
> > 
> > this breaks ethernet on IP22 completely, but I haven't figured out why, yet.
> 
> the problem is that dma_sync_single_for_cpu() doesn't flush anything
> for IP22, because it only flushes for CPUs which do speculation. So
> either MIPS arch_sync_dma_for_cpu() should always flush or sgiseeq
> needs to use a different sync funktion, when it wants to re-read descriptors
> from memory.

Well, if IP22 doesn't speculate (which I'm pretty sure is the case),
dma_sync_single_for_cpu should indeeed be a no-op.  But then there
also shouldn't be anything in the cache, as the previous
dma_sync_single_for_device should have invalidated it.  So it seems like
we are missing one (or more) ownership transfers to the device.  I'll
try to look at the the ownership management in a little more detail
tomorrow.
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