Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 2 authors, 2021-10-14

Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-10-09 11:55:57
Also in: lkml, virtualization

On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 07:48:28PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
As well known, hvc backend can register its opertions to hvc backend.
the operations contain put_chars(), get_chars() and so on.

Some hvc backend may do dma in its operations. eg, put_chars() of
virtio-console. But in the code of hvc framework, it may pass DMA
incapable memory to put_chars() under a specific configuration, which
is explained in commit c4baad5029(virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack):
1, c[] is on stack,
   hvc_console_print():
	char c[N_OUTBUF] __ALIGNED__;
	cons_ops[index]->put_chars(vtermnos[index], c, i);
2, ch is on stack,
   static void hvc_poll_put_char(,,char ch)
   {
	struct tty_struct *tty = driver->ttys[0];
	struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data;
	int n;

	do {
		n = hp->ops->put_chars(hp->vtermno, &ch, 1);
	} while (n <= 0);
   }

Commit c4baad5029 is just the fix to avoid DMA from stack memory, which
is passed to virtio-console by hvc framework in above code. But I think
the fix is aggressive, it directly uses kmemdup() to alloc new buffer
from kmalloc area and do memcpy no matter the memory is in kmalloc area
or not. But most importantly, it should better be fixed in the hvc
framework, by changing it to never pass stack memory to the put_chars()
function in the first place. Otherwise, we still face the same issue if
a new hvc backend using dma added in the furture.

In this patch, add 'char cons_outbuf[]' as part of 'struct hvc_struct',
so hp->cons_outbuf is no longer the stack memory, we can use it in above
case 1. Add 'char outchar' as part of 'struct hvc_struct', we can use it
in above case 2. We also add lock for each above buf to protect them
separately instead of using the global lock of hvc.

Introduce another array(cons_hvcs[]) for hvc pointers next to the
cons_ops[] and vtermnos[] arrays. With the array, we can easily find
hvc's cons_outbuf and its lock.

With the patch, we can revert the fix c4baad5029.

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <redacted>
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
index 5bb8c4e44..4d8f112f2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
@@ -41,16 +41,6 @@
  */
 #define HVC_CLOSE_WAIT (HZ/100) /* 1/10 of a second */
 
-/*
- * These sizes are most efficient for vio, because they are the
- * native transfer size. We could make them selectable in the
- * future to better deal with backends that want other buffer sizes.
- */
-#define N_OUTBUF	16
-#define N_INBUF		16
-
-#define __ALIGNED__ __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(long))))
-
Are you sure this applies on top of patch 1/3 here?
+/*
+ * These sizes are most efficient for vio, because they are the
+ * native transfer size. We could make them selectable in the
+ * future to better deal with backends that want other buffer sizes.
+ */
+#define N_OUTBUF	16
+#define N_INBUF		16
+
+#define __ALIGNED__ __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(long))))
Again, are you sure this is correct?

thanks,

greg k-h
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