Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/6] page_pool: frag API support for 32-bit arch with 64-bit DMA

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:35:43 -0700

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:18:55 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> > -	page_pool_set_dma_addr(page, dma);
> > +	if (page_pool_set_dma_addr(page, dma))
> > +		goto unmap_failed;  
> 
> What does the driver do when the above fails?
> Does the driver still need to implement a fallback for 32 bit arch with
> dma addr with more than 32 + 12 bits?
> If yes, it does not seems to be very helpful from driver's point of view
> as the driver might still need to call page allocator API directly when
> the above fails.

I'd expect the driver to do nothing, we are operating under 
the assumption that "this will never happen". If it does 
the user should report it back to us. So maybe..

> >  	if (pool->p.flags & PP_FLAG_DMA_SYNC_DEV)
> >  		page_pool_dma_sync_for_device(pool, page, pool->p.max_len);
> >  
> >  	return true;
> > +
> > +unmap_failed:

.. we should also add a:

	WARN_ONCE(1, "misaligned DMA address, please report to netdev@");

here?

> > +	dma_unmap_page_attrs(pool->p.dev, dma,
> > +			     PAGE_SIZE << pool->p.order, pool->p.dma_dir,
> > +			     DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC | DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING);
> > +	return false;