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