Re: [RFC 1/6] omap: iommu: generic iommu api migration

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Ohad,

On Tuesday 07 June 2011 13:19:05 Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> +     BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED((long)omap_domain->pgtable, IOPGD_TABLE_SIZE));
> > 
> > Either __get_free_pages() guarantees that the allocated memory will be
> > aligned on an IOPGD_TABLE_SIZE boundary, in which case the BUG_ON() is
> > unnecessary, or doesn't offer such guarantee, in which case the BUG_ON()
> > will oops randomly.
> 
> Curious, does it oops randomly today ?
> (i just copied this from omap_iommu_probe, where it always existed).

No that I know of :-)

> It is a bit ugly though, and thinking on it again, 16KB is not that
> big. We can just use kmalloc here, which does ensure the alignment
> (or, better yet, kzalloc, and then ditch the memset).
> 
> > In both cases BUG_ON() should probably be avoided.
> 
> I disagree; we must check this so user data won't be harmed (hardware
> requirement), and if a memory allocation API fails to meet its
> requirements - that's really bad and user data is again at stake (much
> more will break, not only the iommu driver).

My point is that if the allocator guarantees the alignment (not as a side 
effect of the implementation, but per its API) there's no need to check it 
again. As the alignement is required, we need an allocator that guarantees it 
anyway.

> > This leaks omap_domain->pgtable.
> > 
> > The free_pages() call in omap_iommu_remove() should be removed, as
> > omap_iommu_probe() doesn't allocate the pages table anymore.
> 
> thanks !
> 
> > You can also remove the the struct iommu::iopgd field.
> 
> No, I can't; it's used when the device is attached to an address space
> domain.

Right, my bad.

> > You return 0 in the bogus pte/pgd cases. Is that intentional ?
> 
> Yes, that's probably the most (if any) reasonable value to return here
> (all other iommu implementations are doing so too).

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart