Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 4 authors, 2025-09-23

Re: [PATCH v6 00/16] dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Date: 2025-09-23 17:09:45
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 06:47:27PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 06:53:52PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 10:08:21AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 12:03:27PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 12:25:38AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
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This series does the core code and modern flows. A followup series
will give the same treatment to the legacy dma_ops implementation.
Applied patches 1-13 into dma-mapping-for-next branch. Let's check if it 
works fine in linux-next.
Thanks a lot.
Just fyi, when dma debug is enabled, we're seeing this new warning
below. I have not had a chance to look into it yet, so I'm just
reporting the observation.
Did you apply all patches or only Marek's branch?
I don't get this warning when I run my NVMe tests on current dmabuf-vfio branch.
This was the snapshot of linux-next from the 20250918 tag. It doesn't
have the full patchset applied.

One other thing to note, this was runing on arm64 platform using smmu
configured with 64k pages. If your iommu granule is 4k instead, we
wouldn't use the blk_dma_map_direct path.
I spent some time looking to see if I could guess what this is and
came up empty. It seems most likely we are leaking a dma mapping
tracking somehow? The DMA API side is pretty simple here though..

Not sure the 64k/4k itself is a cause, but triggering the non-iova
flow is probably the issue.

Can you check the output of this debugfs:

/*
 * Dump mappings entries on user space via debugfs
 */
static int dump_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)

? If the system is idle and it has lots of entries that is probably
confirmation of the theory.

Jason
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