1============================================ 2Dynamic DMA mapping using the generic device 3============================================ 4 5:Author: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> 6 7This document describes the DMA API. For a more gentle introduction 8of the API (and actual examples), see :doc:`/core-api/dma-api-howto`. 9 10This API is split into two pieces. Part I describes the basic API. 11Part II describes extensions for supporting non-consistent memory 12machines. Unless you know that your driver absolutely has to support 13non-consistent platforms (this is usually only legacy platforms) you 14should only use the API described in part I. 15 16Part I - dma_API 17---------------- 18 19To get the dma_API, you must #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>. This 20provides dma_addr_t and the interfaces described below. 21 22A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA address for the platform. It can be 23given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A CPU cannot reference 24a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between its physical 25address space and the DMA address space. 26 27Part Ia - Using large DMA-coherent buffers 28------------------------------------------ 29 30:: 31 32 void * 33 dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, 34 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag) 35 36Consistent memory is memory for which a write by either the device or 37the processor can immediately be read by the processor or device 38without having to worry about caching effects. (You may however need 39to make sure to flush the processor's write buffers before telling 40devices to read that memory.) 41 42This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of consistent memory. 43 44It returns a pointer to the allocated region (in the processor's virtual 45address space) or NULL if the allocation failed. 46 47It also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned integer the 48same width as the bus and given to the device as the DMA address base of 49the region. 50 51Note: consistent memory can be expensive on some platforms, and the 52minimum allocation length may be as big as a page, so you should 53consolidate your requests for consistent memory as much as possible. 54The simplest way to do that is to use the dma_pool calls (see below). 55 56The flag parameter (dma_alloc_coherent() only) allows the caller to 57specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see kmalloc()) for the allocation (the 58implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of 59the returned memory, like GFP_DMA). 60 61:: 62 63 void 64 dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, 65 dma_addr_t dma_handle) 66 67Free a region of consistent memory you previously allocated. dev, 68size and dma_handle must all be the same as those passed into 69dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by 70the dma_alloc_coherent(). 71 72Note that unlike their sibling allocation calls, these routines 73may only be called with IRQs enabled. 74 75 76Part Ib - Using small DMA-coherent buffers 77------------------------------------------ 78 79To get this part of the dma_API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h> 80 81Many drivers need lots of small DMA-coherent memory regions for DMA 82descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page 83or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work 84much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the DMA-coherent allocator, 85not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints 86for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N-byte boundaries. 87 88 89:: 90 91 struct dma_pool * 92 dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev, 93 size_t size, size_t align, size_t alloc); 94 95dma_pool_create() initializes a pool of DMA-coherent buffers 96for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which 97can sleep. 98 99The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size 100are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware 101alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed 102in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary 103crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated 104from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries. 105 106:: 107 108 void * 109 dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags, 110 dma_addr_t *handle) 111 112Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the 113allocation attempt succeeded. 114 115 116:: 117 118 void * 119 dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags, 120 dma_addr_t *dma_handle); 121 122This allocates memory from the pool; the returned memory will meet the 123size and alignment requirements specified at creation time. Pass 124GFP_ATOMIC to prevent blocking, or if it's permitted (not 125in_interrupt, not holding SMP locks), pass GFP_KERNEL to allow 126blocking. Like dma_alloc_coherent(), this returns two values: an 127address usable by the CPU, and the DMA address usable by the pool's 128device. 129 130:: 131 132 void 133 dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr, 134 dma_addr_t addr); 135 136This puts memory back into the pool. The pool is what was passed to 137dma_pool_alloc(); the CPU (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what 138were returned when that routine allocated the memory being freed. 139 140:: 141 142 void 143 dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool); 144 145dma_pool_destroy() frees the resources of the pool. It must be 146called in a context which can sleep. Make sure you've freed all allocated 147memory back to the pool before you destroy it. 148 149 150Part Ic - DMA addressing limitations 151------------------------------------ 152 153:: 154 155 int 156 dma_set_mask_and_coherent(struct device *dev, u64 mask) 157 158Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device 159streaming and coherent DMA mask parameters if it is. 160 161Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. 162 163:: 164 165 int 166 dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask) 167 168Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device 169parameters if it is. 170 171Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. 172 173:: 174 175 int 176 dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask) 177 178Checks to see if the mask is possible and updates the device 179parameters if it is. 180 181Returns: 0 if successful and a negative error if not. 182 183:: 184 185 u64 186 dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev) 187 188This API returns the mask that the platform requires to 189operate efficiently. Usually this means the returned mask 190is the minimum required to cover all of memory. Examining the 191required mask gives drivers with variable descriptor sizes the 192opportunity to use smaller descriptors as necessary. 193 194Requesting the required mask does not alter the current mask. If you 195wish to take advantage of it, you should issue a dma_set_mask() 196call to set the mask to the value returned. 197 198:: 199 200 size_t 201 dma_max_mapping_size(struct device *dev); 202 203Returns the maximum size of a mapping for the device. The size parameter 204of the mapping functions like dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and 205others should not be larger than the returned value. 206 207:: 208 209 bool 210 dma_need_sync(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr); 211 212Returns %true if dma_sync_single_for_{device,cpu} calls are required to 213transfer memory ownership. Returns %false if those calls can be skipped. 214 215:: 216 217 unsigned long 218 dma_get_merge_boundary(struct device *dev); 219 220Returns the DMA merge boundary. If the device cannot merge any the DMA address 221segments, the function returns 0. 222 223Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings 224-------------------------------- 225 226:: 227 228 dma_addr_t 229 dma_map_single(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size, 230 enum dma_data_direction direction) 231 232Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the 233device and returns the DMA address of the memory. 234 235The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting. 236However the dma_API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its 237direction: 238 239======================= ============================================= 240DMA_NONE no direction (used for debugging) 241DMA_TO_DEVICE data is going from the memory to the device 242DMA_FROM_DEVICE data is coming from the device to the memory 243DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction isn't known 244======================= ============================================= 245 246.. note:: 247 248 Not all memory regions in a machine can be mapped by this API. 249 Further, contiguous kernel virtual space may not be contiguous as 250 physical memory. Since this API does not provide any scatter/gather 251 capability, it will fail if the user tries to map a non-physically 252 contiguous piece of memory. For this reason, memory to be mapped by 253 this API should be obtained from sources which guarantee it to be 254 physically contiguous (like kmalloc). 255 256 Further, the DMA address of the memory must be within the 257 dma_mask of the device (the dma_mask is a bit mask of the 258 addressable region for the device, i.e., if the DMA address of 259 the memory ANDed with the dma_mask is still equal to the DMA 260 address, then the device can perform DMA to the memory). To 261 ensure that the memory allocated by kmalloc is within the dma_mask, 262 the driver may specify various platform-dependent flags to restrict 263 the DMA address range of the allocation (e.g., on x86, GFP_DMA 264 guarantees to be within the first 16MB of available DMA addresses, 265 as required by ISA devices). 266 267 Note also that the above constraints on physical contiguity and 268 dma_mask may not apply if the platform has an IOMMU (a device which 269 maps an I/O DMA address to a physical memory address). However, to be 270 portable, device driver writers may *not* assume that such an IOMMU 271 exists. 272 273.. warning:: 274 275 Memory coherency operates at a granularity called the cache 276 line width. In order for memory mapped by this API to operate 277 correctly, the mapped region must begin exactly on a cache line 278 boundary and end exactly on one (to prevent two separately mapped 279 regions from sharing a single cache line). Since the cache line size 280 may not be known at compile time, the API will not enforce this 281 requirement. Therefore, it is recommended that driver writers who 282 don't take special care to determine the cache line size at run time 283 only map virtual regions that begin and end on page boundaries (which 284 are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries). 285 286 DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification 287 of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to 288 the device. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this 289 primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device 290 may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see 291 below). 292 293 DMA_FROM_DEVICE synchronisation must be done before the driver 294 accesses data that may be changed by the device. This memory should 295 be treated as read-only by the driver. If the driver needs to write 296 to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below). 297 298 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL requires special handling: it means that the driver 299 isn't sure if the memory was modified before being handed off to the 300 device and also isn't sure if the device will also modify it. Thus, 301 you must always sync bidirectional memory twice: once before the 302 memory is handed off to the device (to make sure all memory changes 303 are flushed from the processor) and once before the data may be 304 accessed after being used by the device (to make sure any processor 305 cache lines are updated with data that the device may have changed). 306 307:: 308 309 void 310 dma_unmap_single(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size, 311 enum dma_data_direction direction) 312 313Unmaps the region previously mapped. All the parameters passed in 314must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping 315API. 316 317:: 318 319 dma_addr_t 320 dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page, 321 unsigned long offset, size_t size, 322 enum dma_data_direction direction) 323 324 void 325 dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_address, size_t size, 326 enum dma_data_direction direction) 327 328API for mapping and unmapping for pages. All the notes and warnings 329for the other mapping APIs apply here. Also, although the <offset> 330and <size> parameters are provided to do partial page mapping, it is 331recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the 332cache width is. 333 334:: 335 336 dma_addr_t 337 dma_map_resource(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, 338 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs) 339 340 void 341 dma_unmap_resource(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, size_t size, 342 enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs) 343 344API for mapping and unmapping for MMIO resources. All the notes and 345warnings for the other mapping APIs apply here. The API should only be 346used to map device MMIO resources, mapping of RAM is not permitted. 347 348:: 349 350 int 351 dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr) 352 353In some circumstances dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and dma_map_resource() 354will fail to create a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing 355the returned DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value 356means the mapping could not be created and the driver should take appropriate 357action (e.g. reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later). 358 359:: 360 361 int 362 dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, 363 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction) 364 365Returns: the number of DMA address segments mapped (this may be shorter 366than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are 367physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single 368entry). 369 370Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once. 371The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg. 372 373As with the other mapping interfaces, dma_map_sg() can fail. When it 374does, 0 is returned and a driver must take appropriate action. It is 375critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver 376aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and 377corrupting the filesystem. 378 379With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this:: 380 381 int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction); 382 struct scatterlist *sg; 383 384 for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) { 385 hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg); 386 hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg); 387 } 388 389where nents is the number of entries in the sglist. 390 391The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries 392into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be 393physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it 394mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned. 395 396Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times) 397and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously 398accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above. 399 400:: 401 402 void 403 dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, 404 int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction) 405 406Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list. All the parameters 407must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping 408API. 409 410Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of 411DMA address entries returned. 412 413:: 414 415 void 416 dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, 417 size_t size, 418 enum dma_data_direction direction) 419 420 void 421 dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, 422 size_t size, 423 enum dma_data_direction direction) 424 425 void 426 dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, 427 int nents, 428 enum dma_data_direction direction) 429 430 void 431 dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, 432 int nents, 433 enum dma_data_direction direction) 434 435Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU 436and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same 437as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API, 438you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to 439those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync. 440 441 442.. note:: 443 444 You must do this: 445 446 - Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device 447 (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction) 448 - After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA 449 (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction 450 - before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is 451 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL 452 453See also dma_map_single(). 454 455:: 456 457 dma_addr_t 458 dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size, 459 enum dma_data_direction dir, 460 unsigned long attrs) 461 462 void 463 dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, 464 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, 465 unsigned long attrs) 466 467 int 468 dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, 469 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, 470 unsigned long attrs) 471 472 void 473 dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, 474 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, 475 unsigned long attrs) 476 477The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions 478without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional 479dma_attrs. 480 481The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and 482each attribute should be documented in :doc:`/core-api/dma-attributes`. 483 484If dma_attrs are 0, the semantics of each of these functions 485is identical to those of the corresponding function 486without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs() 487can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc. 488 489As an example of the use of the ``*_attrs`` functions, here's how 490you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory 491for DMA:: 492 493 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h> 494 /* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-mapping.h and 495 * documented in Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst */ 496 ... 497 498 unsigned long attr; 499 attr |= DMA_ATTR_FOO; 500 .... 501 n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, attr); 502 .... 503 504Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its 505presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping 506routines, e.g.::: 507 508 void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, 509 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, 510 unsigned long attrs) 511 { 512 .... 513 if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_FOO) 514 /* twizzle the frobnozzle */ 515 .... 516 } 517 518 519Part II - Non-coherent DMA allocations 520-------------------------------------- 521 522These APIs allow to allocate pages that are guaranteed to be DMA addressable 523by the passed in device, but which need explicit management of memory ownership 524for the kernel vs the device. 525 526If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a processor and 527an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the API. 528 529:: 530 531 struct page * 532 dma_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle, 533 enum dma_data_direction dir, gfp_t gfp) 534 535This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of non-coherent memory. It 536returns a pointer to first struct page for the region, or NULL if the 537allocation failed. The resulting struct page can be used for everything a 538struct page is suitable for. 539 540It also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned integer the 541same width as the bus and given to the device as the DMA address base of 542the region. 543 544The dir parameter specified if data is read and/or written by the device, 545see dma_map_single() for details. 546 547The gfp parameter allows the caller to specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see 548kmalloc()) for the allocation, but rejects flags used to specify a memory 549zone such as GFP_DMA or GFP_HIGHMEM. 550 551Before giving the memory to the device, dma_sync_single_for_device() needs 552to be called, and before reading memory written by the device, 553dma_sync_single_for_cpu(), just like for streaming DMA mappings that are 554reused. 555 556:: 557 558 void 559 dma_free_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, struct page *page, 560 dma_addr_t dma_handle, enum dma_data_direction dir) 561 562Free a region of memory previously allocated using dma_alloc_pages(). 563dev, size, dma_handle and dir must all be the same as those passed into 564dma_alloc_pages(). page must be the pointer returned by dma_alloc_pages(). 565 566:: 567 568 void * 569 dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, 570 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, enum dma_data_direction dir, 571 gfp_t gfp) 572 573This routine is a convenient wrapper around dma_alloc_pages that returns the 574kernel virtual address for the allocated memory instead of the page structure. 575 576:: 577 578 void 579 dma_free_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, 580 dma_addr_t dma_handle, enum dma_data_direction dir) 581 582Free a region of memory previously allocated using dma_alloc_noncoherent(). 583dev, size, dma_handle and dir must all be the same as those passed into 584dma_alloc_noncoherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by 585dma_alloc_noncoherent(). 586 587:: 588 589 int 590 dma_get_cache_alignment(void) 591 592Returns the processor cache alignment. This is the absolute minimum 593alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping 594memory or doing partial flushes. 595 596.. note:: 597 598 This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache 599 line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly 600 into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power 601 of two for easy alignment. 602 603 604Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API 605------------------------------------------- 606 607The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be 608released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With 609the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers 610do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can 611result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems. 612 613To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can 614be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those 615violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable 616debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this 617option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels. 618 619If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping 620about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an 621error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An 622example warning message may look like this:: 623 624 WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448 625 check_unmap+0x203/0x490() 626 Hardware name: 627 forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong 628 function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as 629 single] [unmapped as page] 630 Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169 631 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1 632 Call Trace: 633 <IRQ> [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130 634 [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30 635 [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0 636 [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40 637 [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0 638 [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60 639 [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50 640 [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0 641 [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40 642 [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0 643 [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50 644 [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490 645 [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50 646 [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0 647 [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0 648 [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70 649 [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150 650 [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0 651 [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa 652 <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]--- 653 654The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace 655of the DMA-API call which caused this warning. 656 657Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other 658errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code 659from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can 660be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for 661details. 662 663The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In 664this directory the following files can currently be found: 665 666=============================== =============================================== 667dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this 668 value is not equal to zero the debugging code 669 will print a warning for every error it finds 670 into the kernel log. Be careful with this 671 option, as it can easily flood your logs. 672 673dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y' 674 if the debugging code is disabled. This can 675 happen when it runs out of memory or if it was 676 disabled at boot time 677 678dma-api/dump This read-only file contains current DMA 679 mappings. 680 681dma-api/error_count This file is read-only and shows the total 682 numbers of errors found. 683 684dma-api/num_errors The number in this file shows how many 685 warnings will be printed to the kernel log 686 before it stops. This number is initialized to 687 one at system boot and be set by writing into 688 this file 689 690dma-api/min_free_entries This read-only file can be read to get the 691 minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the 692 allocator has ever seen. If this value goes 693 down to zero the code will attempt to increase 694 nr_total_entries to compensate. 695 696dma-api/num_free_entries The current number of free dma_debug_entries 697 in the allocator. 698 699dma-api/nr_total_entries The total number of dma_debug_entries in the 700 allocator, both free and used. 701 702dma-api/driver_filter You can write a name of a driver into this file 703 to limit the debug output to requests from that 704 particular driver. Write an empty string to 705 that file to disable the filter and see 706 all errors again. 707=============================== =============================================== 708 709If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default. 710If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide 711'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging. 712Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do 713so. 714 715If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can 716specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the 717driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that 718driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs. 719 720When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran 721out of dma_debug_entries and was unable to allocate more on-demand. 65536 722entries are preallocated at boot - if this is too low for you boot with 723'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default. Note 724that the code allocates entries in batches, so the exact number of 725preallocated entries may be greater than the actual number requested. The 726code will print to the kernel log each time it has dynamically allocated 727as many entries as were initially preallocated. This is to indicate that a 728larger preallocation size may be appropriate, or if it happens continually 729that a driver may be leaking mappings. 730 731:: 732 733 void 734 debug_dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr); 735 736dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail 737to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and 738dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by 739debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by 740the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if 741this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that 742leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error() 743routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging. 744