Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your patch.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Warren
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 1:33 AM
> To: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>; w...@wwwdotorg.org;
> h...@wwwdotorg.org; \ (Xavier\) <xavier.hu...@huawei.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-r...@vger.kernel.org; Doug Ledford
> <dledf...@redhat.com>; Jason Gunthorpe <j...@mellanox.com>; Stephen
> Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [RFC PATCH] net/mlx4: Get rid of page operation after
> dma_alloc_coherent
> 
> From: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
> 
> This is a port of commit 378efe798ecf ("RDMA/hns: Get rid of page operation
> after dma_alloc_coherent") to the mlx4 driver. That change was described
> as:
> 
> > In general, dma_alloc_coherent() returns a CPU virtual address and a
> > DMA address, and we have no guarantee that the underlying memory
> even
> > has an associated struct page at all.
> >
> > This patch gets rid of the page operation after dma_alloc_coherent,
> > and records the VA returned form dma_alloc_coherent in the struct of
> > hem in hns RoCE driver.
> 

I need to review this patch first.

> Differences in this port relative to the hns patch:
> 
> 1) The hns patch only needed to fix a dma_alloc_coherent path, but this
> patch also needs to fix an alloc_pages path. This appears to be simple except
> for the next point.
> 
> 2) The hns patch converted a bunch of code to consistently use
> sg_dma_len(mem) rather than a mix of that and mem->length However, it
> seems that sg_dma_len(mem) can be modified or zeroed at runtime, and so
> using it when calling e.g. __free_pages is problematic. I suspect the same
> issue affects mlx4_table_find() somehow too, and similarly I expect the hns
> driver has an issue in this area. Instead, this patch converts everything to 
> use
> mem->length instead. I'd like some feedback on this issue.
> 

OK. I will carefully go over this point.

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Note: I've tested this patch in downstream 4.9 and 4.14 based kernels, but
> can't test it in mainline (at least ibping works) since my system isn't
> supported their yet. I have compile-tested it in mainline at least, for ARM64.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c | 51 ++++++++++++++----------
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
> index 4b4351141b94..b14207cef69e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void mlx4_free_icm_coherent(struct mlx4_dev
> *dev, struct mlx4_icm_chunk *
>       for (i = 0; i < chunk->npages; ++i)
>               dma_free_coherent(&dev->persist->pdev->dev,
>                                 chunk->mem[i].length,
> -                               lowmem_page_address(sg_page(&chunk-
> >mem[i])),
> +                               chunk->buf[i],
>                                 sg_dma_address(&chunk->mem[i]));
>  }
> 
> @@ -95,9 +95,11 @@ void mlx4_free_icm(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct
> mlx4_icm *icm, int coherent)
>       kfree(icm);
>  }
> 
> -static int mlx4_alloc_icm_pages(struct scatterlist *mem, int order,
> +static int mlx4_alloc_icm_pages(struct mlx4_icm_chunk *chunk, int
> +order,
>                               gfp_t gfp_mask, int node)
>  {
> +     struct scatterlist *mem = &chunk->mem[chunk->npages];
> +     void **buf = &chunk->buf[chunk->npages];
>       struct page *page;
> 
>       page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, order); @@ -108,25
> +110,30 @@ static int mlx4_alloc_icm_pages(struct scatterlist *mem, int
> order,
>       }
> 
>       sg_set_page(mem, page, PAGE_SIZE << order, 0);
> +     *buf = lowmem_page_address(page);
>       return 0;
>  }
> 
> -static int mlx4_alloc_icm_coherent(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist
> *mem,
> -                                 int order, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +static int mlx4_alloc_icm_coherent(struct device *dev,
> +                                struct mlx4_icm_chunk *chunk, int order,
> +                                gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
> -     void *buf = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE << order,
> -                                    &sg_dma_address(mem), gfp_mask);
> -     if (!buf)
> +     struct scatterlist *mem = &chunk->mem[chunk->npages];
> +     void **buf = &chunk->buf[chunk->npages];
> +
> +     *buf = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE << order,
> +                               &sg_dma_address(mem), gfp_mask);
> +     if (!*buf)
>               return -ENOMEM;
> 
> -     if (offset_in_page(buf)) {
> +     if (offset_in_page(*buf)) {
>               dma_free_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE << order,
> -                               buf, sg_dma_address(mem));
> +                               *buf, sg_dma_address(mem));
>               return -ENOMEM;
>       }
> 
> -     sg_set_buf(mem, buf, PAGE_SIZE << order);
>       sg_dma_len(mem) = PAGE_SIZE << order;
> +     mem->length = PAGE_SIZE << order;
>       return 0;
>  }
> 
> @@ -174,6 +181,7 @@ struct mlx4_icm *mlx4_alloc_icm(struct mlx4_dev
> *dev, int npages,
>                       sg_init_table(chunk->mem,
> MLX4_ICM_CHUNK_LEN);
>                       chunk->npages = 0;
>                       chunk->nsg    = 0;
> +                     memset(chunk->buf, 0, sizeof(chunk->buf));
>                       list_add_tail(&chunk->list, &icm->chunk_list);
>               }
> 
> @@ -186,11 +194,9 @@ struct mlx4_icm *mlx4_alloc_icm(struct mlx4_dev
> *dev, int npages,
> 
>               if (coherent)
>                       ret = mlx4_alloc_icm_coherent(&dev->persist-
> >pdev->dev,
> -                                                   &chunk->mem[chunk-
> >npages],
> -                                                   cur_order, mask);
> +                                                   chunk, cur_order, mask);
>               else
> -                     ret = mlx4_alloc_icm_pages(&chunk->mem[chunk-
> >npages],
> -                                                cur_order, mask,
> +                     ret = mlx4_alloc_icm_pages(chunk, cur_order, mask,
>                                                  dev->numa_node);
> 
>               if (ret) {
> @@ -316,11 +322,11 @@ void mlx4_table_put(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct
> mlx4_icm_table *table, u32 obj)  void *mlx4_table_find(struct
> mlx4_icm_table *table, u32 obj,
>                       dma_addr_t *dma_handle)
>  {
> -     int offset, dma_offset, i;
> +     int offset, dma_offset, i, length;
>       u64 idx;
>       struct mlx4_icm_chunk *chunk;
>       struct mlx4_icm *icm;
> -     struct page *page = NULL;
> +     void *addr = NULL;
> 
>       if (!table->lowmem)
>               return NULL;
> @@ -336,28 +342,29 @@ void *mlx4_table_find(struct mlx4_icm_table
> *table, u32 obj,
> 
>       list_for_each_entry(chunk, &icm->chunk_list, list) {
>               for (i = 0; i < chunk->npages; ++i) {
> +                     length = chunk->mem[i].length;
>                       if (dma_handle && dma_offset >= 0) {
> -                             if (sg_dma_len(&chunk->mem[i]) >
> dma_offset)
> +                             if (length > dma_offset)
>                                       *dma_handle =
> sg_dma_address(&chunk->mem[i]) +
>                                               dma_offset;
> -                             dma_offset -= sg_dma_len(&chunk-
> >mem[i]);
> +                             dma_offset -= length;
>                       }
>                       /*
>                        * DMA mapping can merge pages but not split them,
>                        * so if we found the page, dma_handle has already
>                        * been assigned to.
>                        */
> -                     if (chunk->mem[i].length > offset) {
> -                             page = sg_page(&chunk->mem[i]);
> +                     if (length > offset) {
> +                             addr = chunk->buf[i] + offset;
>                               goto out;
>                       }
> -                     offset -= chunk->mem[i].length;
> +                     offset -= length;
>               }
>       }
> 
>  out:
>       mutex_unlock(&table->mutex);
> -     return page ? lowmem_page_address(page) + offset : NULL;
> +     return addr;
>  }
> 
>  int mlx4_table_get_range(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct mlx4_icm_table
> *table, diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.h
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.h
> index c9169a490557..a565188dc391 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct mlx4_icm_chunk {
>       int                     npages;
>       int                     nsg;
>       struct scatterlist      mem[MLX4_ICM_CHUNK_LEN];
> +     void                    *buf[MLX4_ICM_CHUNK_LEN];
>  };
> 
>  struct mlx4_icm {
> --
> 2.19.2

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