Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/npu-dma: Remove NPU DMA ops

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:58:41 +0100

Please take my patch instead.  We have a kernel polcity to not keep
dead code around, and everyone including Linus and the attending IBMers
confirmed this.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:02:03PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> The NPU IOMMU is setup to mirror the parent PCIe device IOMMU
> setup. Therefore it does not make sense to call dma operations such as
> dma_map_page, etc. directly on these devices. The existing dma-ops
> simply print a warning if they are ever called, however this is
> unnecessary and the warnings are likely to go unnoticed.
> 
> It is instead simpler to remove these operations and let the generic
> DMA code print warnings (eg. via a NULL pointer deref) in cases of
> buggy drivers attempting dma operations on NVLink devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c | 64 ++------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> index 6f60e0931922..75b935252981 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c
> @@ -102,63 +102,6 @@ struct pci_dev *pnv_pci_get_npu_dev(struct pci_dev *gpdev, int index)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnv_pci_get_npu_dev);
> 
> -#define NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED()					\
> -	dev_err_once(dev, "%s operation unsupported for NVLink devices\n", \
> -		__func__)
> -
> -static void *dma_npu_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> -			   dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag,
> -			   unsigned long attrs)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -	return NULL;
> -}
> -
> -static void dma_npu_free(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> -			 void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
> -			 unsigned long attrs)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -}
> -
> -static dma_addr_t dma_npu_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
> -				   unsigned long offset, size_t size,
> -				   enum dma_data_direction direction,
> -				   unsigned long attrs)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static int dma_npu_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sglist,
> -			  int nelems, enum dma_data_direction direction,
> -			  unsigned long attrs)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static int dma_npu_dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static u64 dma_npu_get_required_mask(struct device *dev)
> -{
> -	NPU_DMA_OP_UNSUPPORTED();
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static const struct dma_map_ops dma_npu_ops = {
> -	.map_page		= dma_npu_map_page,
> -	.map_sg			= dma_npu_map_sg,
> -	.alloc			= dma_npu_alloc,
> -	.free			= dma_npu_free,
> -	.dma_supported		= dma_npu_dma_supported,
> -	.get_required_mask	= dma_npu_get_required_mask,
> -};
> -
>  /*
>   * Returns the PE assoicated with the PCI device of the given
>   * NPU. Returns the linked pci device if pci_dev != NULL.
> @@ -270,10 +213,11 @@ static void pnv_npu_dma_set_32(struct pnv_ioda_pe *npe)
>  	rc = pnv_npu_set_window(npe, 0, gpe->table_group.tables[0]);
> 
>  	/*
> -	 * We don't initialise npu_pe->tce32_table as we always use
> -	 * dma_npu_ops which are nops.
> +	 * NVLink devices use the same TCE table configuration as
> +	 * their parent device so drivers shouldn't be doing DMA
> +	 * operations directly on these devices.
>  	 */
> -	set_dma_ops(&npe->pdev->dev, &dma_npu_ops);
> +	set_dma_ops(&npe->pdev->dev, NULL);
>  }
> 
>  /*
> --
> 2.11.0
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