Subject: [PATCH RESEND] iommu/dma: Implement scatterlist segment merging

From: [email-masked] (Robin Murphy)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:33:11 +0100

Hi Joerg,

On 11/04/16 12:32, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Stop wasting IOVA space by over-aligning scatterlist segments for a
> theoretical worst-case segment boundary mask, and instead take the real
> limits into account to merge consecutive segments wherever appropriate,
> so our callers can benefit from getting back nicely simplified lists.
>
> This also represents the last piece of functionality wanted by users of
> the current arch/arm implementation, thus brings us a small step closer
> to converting that over to the common code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> As requested, reposting rebased onto -rc3.

Just checking whether this has slipped through the cracks? It would be 
nice to tick it off for 4.7 (even if the video folks seem to have gone 
quiet lately).

Thanks,
Robin.

>   drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> index 58f2fe6..886cb3a 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> @@ -389,26 +389,58 @@ void iommu_dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t handle, size_t size,
>
>   /*
>    * Prepare a successfully-mapped scatterlist to give back to the caller.
> - * Handling IOVA concatenation can come later, if needed
> + *
> + * At this point the segments are already laid out by iommu_dma_map_sg() to
> + * avoid individually crossing any boundaries, so we merely need to check a
> + * segment's start address to avoid concatenating across one.
>    */
>   static int __finalise_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents,
>   		dma_addr_t dma_addr)
>   {
> -	struct scatterlist *s;
> -	int i;
> +	struct scatterlist *s, *cur = sg;
> +	unsigned long seg_mask = dma_get_seg_boundary(dev);
> +	unsigned int cur_len = 0, max_len = dma_get_max_seg_size(dev);
> +	int i, count = 0;
>
>   	for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i) {
> -		/* Un-swizzling the fields here, hence the naming mismatch */
> -		unsigned int s_offset = sg_dma_address(s);
> +		/* Restore this segment's original unaligned fields first */
> +		unsigned int s_iova_off = sg_dma_address(s);
>   		unsigned int s_length = sg_dma_len(s);
> -		unsigned int s_dma_len = s->length;
> +		unsigned int s_iova_len = s->length;
>
> -		s->offset += s_offset;
> +		s->offset += s_iova_off;
>   		s->length = s_length;
> -		sg_dma_address(s) = dma_addr + s_offset;
> -		dma_addr += s_dma_len;
> +		sg_dma_address(s) = DMA_ERROR_CODE;
> +		sg_dma_len(s) = 0;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Now fill in the real DMA data. If...
> +		 * - there is a valid output segment to append to
> +		 * - and this segment starts on an IOVA page boundary
> +		 * - but doesn't fall at a segment boundary
> +		 * - and wouldn't make the resulting output segment too long
> +		 */
> +		if (cur_len && !s_iova_off && (dma_addr & seg_mask) &&
> +		    (cur_len + s_length <= max_len)) {
> +			/* ...then concatenate it with the previous one */
> +			cur_len += s_length;
> +		} else {
> +			/* Otherwise start the next output segment */
> +			if (i > 0)
> +				cur = sg_next(cur);
> +			cur_len = s_length;
> +			count++;
> +
> +			sg_dma_address(cur) = dma_addr + s_iova_off;
> +		}
> +
> +		sg_dma_len(cur) = cur_len;
> +		dma_addr += s_iova_len;
> +
> +		if (s_length + s_iova_off < s_iova_len)
> +			cur_len = 0;
>   	}
> -	return i;
> +	return count;
>   }
>
>   /*
> @@ -446,34 +478,40 @@ int iommu_dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
>   	struct scatterlist *s, *prev = NULL;
>   	dma_addr_t dma_addr;
>   	size_t iova_len = 0;
> +	unsigned long mask = dma_get_seg_boundary(dev);
>   	int i;
>
>   	/*
>   	 * Work out how much IOVA space we need, and align the segments to
>   	 * IOVA granules for the IOMMU driver to handle. With some clever
>   	 * trickery we can modify the list in-place, but reversibly, by
> -	 * hiding the original data in the as-yet-unused DMA fields.
> +	 * stashing the unaligned parts in the as-yet-unused DMA fields.
>   	 */
>   	for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i) {
> -		size_t s_offset = iova_offset(iovad, s->offset);
> +		size_t s_iova_off = iova_offset(iovad, s->offset);
>   		size_t s_length = s->length;
> +		size_t pad_len = (mask - iova_len + 1) & mask;
>
> -		sg_dma_address(s) = s_offset;
> +		sg_dma_address(s) = s_iova_off;
>   		sg_dma_len(s) = s_length;
> -		s->offset -= s_offset;
> -		s_length = iova_align(iovad, s_length + s_offset);
> +		s->offset -= s_iova_off;
> +		s_length = iova_align(iovad, s_length + s_iova_off);
>   		s->length = s_length;
>
>   		/*
> -		 * The simple way to avoid the rare case of a segment
> -		 * crossing the boundary mask is to pad the previous one
> -		 * to end at a naturally-aligned IOVA for this one's size,
> -		 * at the cost of potentially over-allocating a little.
> +		 * Due to the alignment of our single IOVA allocation, we can
> +		 * depend on these assumptions about the segment boundary mask:
> +		 * - If mask size >= IOVA size, then the IOVA range cannot
> +		 *   possibly fall across a boundary, so we don't care.
> +		 * - If mask size < IOVA size, then the IOVA range must start
> +		 *   exactly on a boundary, therefore we can lay things out
> +		 *   based purely on segment lengths without needing to know
> +		 *   the actual addresses beforehand.
> +		 * - The mask must be a power of 2, so pad_len == 0 if
> +		 *   iova_len == 0, thus we cannot dereference prev the first
> +		 *   time through here (i.e. before it has a meaningful value).
>   		 */
> -		if (prev) {
> -			size_t pad_len = roundup_pow_of_two(s_length);
> -
> -			pad_len = (pad_len - iova_len) & (pad_len - 1);
> +		if (pad_len && pad_len < s_length - 1) {
>   			prev->length += pad_len;
>   			iova_len += pad_len;
>   		}
>