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   2Dynamic DMA mapping using the generic device
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   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 Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt.
   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_direct_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
 207Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings
 208--------------------------------
 209
 210::
 211
 212        dma_addr_t
 213        dma_map_single(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
 214                       enum dma_data_direction direction)
 215
 216Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the
 217device and returns the DMA address of the memory.
 218
 219The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting.
 220However the dma_API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its
 221direction:
 222
 223======================= =============================================
 224DMA_NONE                no direction (used for debugging)
 225DMA_TO_DEVICE           data is going from the memory to the device
 226DMA_FROM_DEVICE         data is coming from the device to the memory
 227DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL       direction isn't known
 228======================= =============================================
 229
 230.. note::
 231
 232        Not all memory regions in a machine can be mapped by this API.
 233        Further, contiguous kernel virtual space may not be contiguous as
 234        physical memory.  Since this API does not provide any scatter/gather
 235        capability, it will fail if the user tries to map a non-physically
 236        contiguous piece of memory.  For this reason, memory to be mapped by
 237        this API should be obtained from sources which guarantee it to be
 238        physically contiguous (like kmalloc).
 239
 240        Further, the DMA address of the memory must be within the
 241        dma_mask of the device (the dma_mask is a bit mask of the
 242        addressable region for the device, i.e., if the DMA address of
 243        the memory ANDed with the dma_mask is still equal to the DMA
 244        address, then the device can perform DMA to the memory).  To
 245        ensure that the memory allocated by kmalloc is within the dma_mask,
 246        the driver may specify various platform-dependent flags to restrict
 247        the DMA address range of the allocation (e.g., on x86, GFP_DMA
 248        guarantees to be within the first 16MB of available DMA addresses,
 249        as required by ISA devices).
 250
 251        Note also that the above constraints on physical contiguity and
 252        dma_mask may not apply if the platform has an IOMMU (a device which
 253        maps an I/O DMA address to a physical memory address).  However, to be
 254        portable, device driver writers may *not* assume that such an IOMMU
 255        exists.
 256
 257.. warning::
 258
 259        Memory coherency operates at a granularity called the cache
 260        line width.  In order for memory mapped by this API to operate
 261        correctly, the mapped region must begin exactly on a cache line
 262        boundary and end exactly on one (to prevent two separately mapped
 263        regions from sharing a single cache line).  Since the cache line size
 264        may not be known at compile time, the API will not enforce this
 265        requirement.  Therefore, it is recommended that driver writers who
 266        don't take special care to determine the cache line size at run time
 267        only map virtual regions that begin and end on page boundaries (which
 268        are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries).
 269
 270        DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification
 271        of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to
 272        the device.  Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this
 273        primitive should be treated as read-only by the device.  If the device
 274        may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see
 275        below).
 276
 277        DMA_FROM_DEVICE synchronisation must be done before the driver
 278        accesses data that may be changed by the device.  This memory should
 279        be treated as read-only by the driver.  If the driver needs to write
 280        to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below).
 281
 282        DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL requires special handling: it means that the driver
 283        isn't sure if the memory was modified before being handed off to the
 284        device and also isn't sure if the device will also modify it.  Thus,
 285        you must always sync bidirectional memory twice: once before the
 286        memory is handed off to the device (to make sure all memory changes
 287        are flushed from the processor) and once before the data may be
 288        accessed after being used by the device (to make sure any processor
 289        cache lines are updated with data that the device may have changed).
 290
 291::
 292
 293        void
 294        dma_unmap_single(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size,
 295                         enum dma_data_direction direction)
 296
 297Unmaps the region previously mapped.  All the parameters passed in
 298must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping
 299API.
 300
 301::
 302
 303        dma_addr_t
 304        dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
 305                     unsigned long offset, size_t size,
 306                     enum dma_data_direction direction)
 307
 308        void
 309        dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_address, size_t size,
 310                       enum dma_data_direction direction)
 311
 312API for mapping and unmapping for pages.  All the notes and warnings
 313for the other mapping APIs apply here.  Also, although the <offset>
 314and <size> parameters are provided to do partial page mapping, it is
 315recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the
 316cache width is.
 317
 318::
 319
 320        dma_addr_t
 321        dma_map_resource(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
 322                         enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
 323
 324        void
 325        dma_unmap_resource(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, size_t size,
 326                           enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
 327
 328API for mapping and unmapping for MMIO resources. All the notes and
 329warnings for the other mapping APIs apply here. The API should only be
 330used to map device MMIO resources, mapping of RAM is not permitted.
 331
 332::
 333
 334        int
 335        dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
 336
 337In some circumstances dma_map_single(), dma_map_page() and dma_map_resource()
 338will fail to create a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing
 339the returned DMA address with dma_mapping_error(). A non-zero return value
 340means the mapping could not be created and the driver should take appropriate
 341action (e.g. reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later).
 342
 343::
 344
 345        int
 346        dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 347                   int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
 348
 349Returns: the number of DMA address segments mapped (this may be shorter
 350than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are
 351physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single
 352entry).
 353
 354Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once.
 355The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg.
 356
 357As with the other mapping interfaces, dma_map_sg() can fail. When it
 358does, 0 is returned and a driver must take appropriate action. It is
 359critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver
 360aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and
 361corrupting the filesystem.
 362
 363With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this::
 364
 365        int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction);
 366        struct scatterlist *sg;
 367
 368        for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) {
 369                hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg);
 370                hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg);
 371        }
 372
 373where nents is the number of entries in the sglist.
 374
 375The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries
 376into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be
 377physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it
 378mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned.
 379
 380Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times)
 381and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously
 382accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above.
 383
 384::
 385
 386        void
 387        dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 388                     int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
 389
 390Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list.  All the parameters
 391must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping
 392API.
 393
 394Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of
 395DMA address entries returned.
 396
 397::
 398
 399        void
 400        dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
 401                                size_t size,
 402                                enum dma_data_direction direction)
 403
 404        void
 405        dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
 406                                   size_t size,
 407                                   enum dma_data_direction direction)
 408
 409        void
 410        dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 411                            int nents,
 412                            enum dma_data_direction direction)
 413
 414        void
 415        dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 416                               int nents,
 417                               enum dma_data_direction direction)
 418
 419Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU
 420and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same
 421as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API,
 422you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to
 423those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync.
 424
 425
 426.. note::
 427
 428   You must do this:
 429
 430   - Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device
 431     (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction)
 432   - After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA
 433     (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction
 434   - before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is
 435     DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
 436
 437See also dma_map_single().
 438
 439::
 440
 441        dma_addr_t
 442        dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
 443                             enum dma_data_direction dir,
 444                             unsigned long attrs)
 445
 446        void
 447        dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
 448                               size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
 449                               unsigned long attrs)
 450
 451        int
 452        dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
 453                         int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
 454                         unsigned long attrs)
 455
 456        void
 457        dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
 458                           int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
 459                           unsigned long attrs)
 460
 461The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions
 462without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional
 463dma_attrs.
 464
 465The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and
 466each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt.
 467
 468If dma_attrs are 0, the semantics of each of these functions
 469is identical to those of the corresponding function
 470without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs()
 471can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc.
 472
 473As an example of the use of the ``*_attrs`` functions, here's how
 474you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory
 475for DMA::
 476
 477        #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 478        /* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-mapping.h and
 479        * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */
 480        ...
 481
 482                unsigned long attr;
 483                attr |= DMA_ATTR_FOO;
 484                ....
 485                n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, attr);
 486                ....
 487
 488Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its
 489presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping
 490routines, e.g.:::
 491
 492        void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
 493                                     size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
 494                                     unsigned long attrs)
 495        {
 496                ....
 497                if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_FOO)
 498                        /* twizzle the frobnozzle */
 499                ....
 500        }
 501
 502
 503Part II - Advanced dma usage
 504----------------------------
 505
 506Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the
 507majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that
 508don't belong in usual drivers.
 509
 510If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a
 511processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the
 512API at all.
 513
 514::
 515
 516        void *
 517        dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
 518                        gfp_t flag, unsigned long attrs)
 519
 520Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that when the
 521DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flags is passed in the attrs argument, the
 522platform will choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory
 523as it sees fit.  By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform
 524that you have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory
 525in the driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory.
 526
 527Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will
 528guarantee that the sync points become nops.
 529
 530Warning:  Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain.  You should
 531only use this API if you positively know your driver will be
 532required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures
 533that simply cannot make consistent memory.
 534
 535::
 536
 537        void
 538        dma_free_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
 539                       dma_addr_t dma_handle, unsigned long attrs)
 540
 541Free memory allocated by the dma_alloc_attrs().  All common
 542parameters must be identical to those otherwise passed to dma_free_coherent,
 543and the attrs argument must be identical to the attrs passed to
 544dma_alloc_attrs().
 545
 546::
 547
 548        int
 549        dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
 550
 551Returns the processor cache alignment.  This is the absolute minimum
 552alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping
 553memory or doing partial flushes.
 554
 555.. note::
 556
 557        This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache
 558        line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly
 559        into the width returned by this call.  It will also always be a power
 560        of two for easy alignment.
 561
 562::
 563
 564        void
 565        dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
 566                       enum dma_data_direction direction)
 567
 568Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by dma_alloc_attrs() with
 569the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag starting at virtual address vaddr and
 570continuing on for size.  Again, you *must* observe the cache line
 571boundaries when doing this.
 572
 573::
 574
 575        int
 576        dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr,
 577                                    dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size);
 578
 579Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when
 580it's asked for coherent memory for this device.
 581
 582phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently
 583assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region).
 584
 585device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed
 586with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the
 587dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()).
 588
 589size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE).
 590
 591As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of
 592memory may be declared per device.
 593
 594For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared
 595region only at the granularity of a page.  For smaller allocations,
 596you should use the dma_pool() API.
 597
 598::
 599
 600        void
 601        dma_release_declared_memory(struct device *dev)
 602
 603Remove the memory region previously declared from the system.  This
 604API performs *no* in-use checking for this region and will return
 605unconditionally having removed all the required structures.  It is the
 606driver's job to ensure that no parts of this memory region are
 607currently in use.
 608
 609Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API
 610-------------------------------------------
 611
 612The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be
 613released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With
 614the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers
 615do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can
 616result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems.
 617
 618To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can
 619be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those
 620violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable
 621debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this
 622option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels.
 623
 624If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping
 625about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an
 626error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An
 627example warning message may look like this::
 628
 629        WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448
 630                check_unmap+0x203/0x490()
 631        Hardware name:
 632        forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong
 633                function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as
 634        single] [unmapped as page]
 635        Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169
 636        Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1
 637        Call Trace:
 638        <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130
 639        [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30
 640        [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0
 641        [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40
 642        [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0
 643        [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60
 644        [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50
 645        [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0
 646        [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40
 647        [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0
 648        [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50
 649        [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490
 650        [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50
 651        [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0
 652        [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0
 653        [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70
 654        [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150
 655        [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0
 656        [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
 657        <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]---
 658
 659The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace
 660of the DMA-API call which caused this warning.
 661
 662Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other
 663errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code
 664from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can
 665be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for
 666details.
 667
 668The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In
 669this directory the following files can currently be found:
 670
 671=============================== ===============================================
 672dma-api/all_errors              This file contains a numeric value. If this
 673                                value is not equal to zero the debugging code
 674                                will print a warning for every error it finds
 675                                into the kernel log. Be careful with this
 676                                option, as it can easily flood your logs.
 677
 678dma-api/disabled                This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
 679                                if the debugging code is disabled. This can
 680                                happen when it runs out of memory or if it was
 681                                disabled at boot time
 682
 683dma-api/dump                    This read-only file contains current DMA
 684                                mappings.
 685
 686dma-api/error_count             This file is read-only and shows the total
 687                                numbers of errors found.
 688
 689dma-api/num_errors              The number in this file shows how many
 690                                warnings will be printed to the kernel log
 691                                before it stops. This number is initialized to
 692                                one at system boot and be set by writing into
 693                                this file
 694
 695dma-api/min_free_entries        This read-only file can be read to get the
 696                                minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the
 697                                allocator has ever seen. If this value goes
 698                                down to zero the code will attempt to increase
 699                                nr_total_entries to compensate.
 700
 701dma-api/num_free_entries        The current number of free dma_debug_entries
 702                                in the allocator.
 703
 704dma-api/nr_total_entries        The total number of dma_debug_entries in the
 705                                allocator, both free and used.
 706
 707dma-api/driver_filter           You can write a name of a driver into this file
 708                                to limit the debug output to requests from that
 709                                particular driver. Write an empty string to
 710                                that file to disable the filter and see
 711                                all errors again.
 712=============================== ===============================================
 713
 714If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
 715If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
 716'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
 717Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
 718so.
 719
 720If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can
 721specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the
 722driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that
 723driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
 724
 725When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 726out of dma_debug_entries and was unable to allocate more on-demand. 65536
 727entries are preallocated at boot - if this is too low for you boot with
 728'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default. Note
 729that the code allocates entries in batches, so the exact number of
 730preallocated entries may be greater than the actual number requested. The
 731code will print to the kernel log each time it has dynamically allocated
 732as many entries as were initially preallocated. This is to indicate that a
 733larger preallocation size may be appropriate, or if it happens continually
 734that a driver may be leaking mappings.
 735
 736::
 737
 738        void
 739        debug_dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr);
 740
 741dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail
 742to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and
 743dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by
 744debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by
 745the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if
 746this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that
 747leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error()
 748routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging.
 749