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