On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:57:45PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
>
> At 06:33 PM 6/13/2002, David Gibson wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:25:11PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> >>
> >> At 05:24 PM 6/13/2002, David Gibson wrote:
> >> >That's right.  But I think the patch below is a better fix for the
> >> >problem.  It makes consistent_alloc()/consistent_free() just do the
> >> >right thing for both cache coherent and cache non-coherent processors,
> >> >so we can get rid of the ifdef in pci_alloc_consistent() and
> >> >pci_free_consistent().
> >>
> >> So, kmalloc will allocate non-cacheable memory?
> >>
> >> I seriously doubt it (actually I've just tested it:).
> >
> >No, but on cache coherent processors we don't need non-cacheable
> >memory.  That's the whole point.  Likewise with __get_free_pages()
> >which is what pci_alloc_consistent() uses on cache-coherent processors
> >now.
>
> OK, I got it :)
>
> One problem though, kmalloc allocated memory will not be necessarily
> properly aligned
> as required by DMA-mappings.txt
>
> Some PCI drivers may break because of this.

Ah, yes, indeed.  How about this:

diff -urN /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c 
linux-grinch/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c
--- /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c   Fri Jun 
14 07:57:36 2002
+++ linux-grinch/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c      Fri Jun 14 10:23:01 2002
@@ -25,28 +25,16 @@

        if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff)
                gfp |= GFP_DMA;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
        ret = consistent_alloc(gfp, size, dma_handle);
-#else
-       ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
-#endif

-       if (ret != NULL) {
+       if (ret != NULL)
                memset(ret, 0, size);
-#ifndef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
-               *dma_handle = virt_to_bus(ret);
-#endif
-       }
+
        return ret;
 }

 void pci_free_consistent(struct pci_dev *hwdev, size_t size,
                         void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_handle)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
        consistent_free(vaddr);
-#else
-       free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, get_order(size));
-#endif
 }
diff -urN /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include/asm-ppc/io.h 
linux-grinch/include/asm-ppc/io.h
--- /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include/asm-ppc/io.h        Sat May 
11 02:02:08 2002
+++ linux-grinch/include/asm-ppc/io.h   Fri Jun 14 12:05:35 2002
@@ -458,8 +458,17 @@
 #define dma_cache_wback(_start,_size)          do { } while (0)
 #define dma_cache_wback_inv(_start,_size)      do { } while (0)

-#define consistent_alloc(gfp, size, handle)    NULL
-#define consistent_free(addr, size)            do { } while (0)
+static inline void *consistent_alloc(int gfp, size_t size, dma_addr_t 
*dma_handle)
+{
+       unsigned long vaddr;
+
+       vaddr = __get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
+       if (vaddr)
+               *dma_handle = virt_to_bus(vaddr);
+       return (void *)vaddr;
+}
+
+#define consistent_free(addr, size)            kfree(addr)
 #define consistent_sync(addr, size, rw)                do { } while (0)
 #define consistent_sync_page(pg, off, sz, rw)  do { } while (0)



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david at gibson.dropbear.id.au  | solution which is simple, neat and
                                | wrong.  -- H.L. Mencken
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