Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 13/19] swiotlb-xen: use xen_dma_map/unmap_page, xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:11:48PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:20:25PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 06:43:28PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > > > Call xen_dma_map_page, xen_dma_unmap_page, 
> > > > > > xen_dma_sync_single_for_cpu,
> > > > > > xen_dma_sync_single_for_device from swiotlb-xen to ensure cpu/device
> > > > > > coherency of the pages used for DMA, including the ones belonging 
> > > > > > to the
> > > > > > swiotlb buffer.
> > > > > 
> > > > > You lost me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Isn't it the driver's responsibility to do this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looking at what 'xen_dma_map_page()' does for x86 it looks to add an 
> > > > > extra
> > > > > call - page_to_phys - and we ignore it here.
> > > > 
> > > > map_page on arm calls the right cache flushes needed to communicate with
> > > > the device. Same with unmap_page.
> > > 
> > > If this is flushing the cache then I think it makes more sense to do
> > > that without this fancy 'dma_map_page'.
> > > 
> > > Just call it 'xen_flush_dma_page' and make it a nop on all platforms
> > > except ARM.
> > 
> > I am OK with making it a nop on x86, it makes sense.
> > However I would like to keep it called xen_dma_map_page: after all it
> > corresponds exactly to the native map_page dma_op. It is part of the same
> > "contract".
> 
> for example we can turn xen_dma_map_page into a function that returns
> void, this way we can remove the page_to_phys on x86

Right, the v9 patchset you posted fixes my concern.

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