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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2020-11-18 20:48:45 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2020-11-24 14:42:09 +0100 |
commit | e66f6e095486f0210fcf3c5eb3ecf13fa348be4c (patch) | |
tree | 521b26c86915c33349308c604a3963fa74d5624b /Documentation/driver-api | |
parent | mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local* (diff) | |
download | linux-e66f6e095486f0210fcf3c5eb3ecf13fa348be4c.tar.xz linux-e66f6e095486f0210fcf3c5eb3ecf13fa348be4c.zip |
io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant
Similar to kmap local provide a iomap local variant which only disables
migration, but neither disables pagefaults nor preemption.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.561220818@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst | 74 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst index e33b88268554..a0cfb15988df 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst @@ -20,55 +20,71 @@ A mapping object is created during driver initialization using:: mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to enable. Both are in bytes. -This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used -with the io_mapping_map_atomic_wc or io_mapping_map_wc. +This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used with +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(), io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_wc(). -With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either atomically -or not, depending on the necessary scheduling environment. Of course, atomic -maps are more efficient:: +With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either temporarily +or long term, depending on the requirements. Of course, temporary maps are +more efficient. They come in two flavours:: + + void *io_mapping_map_local_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, unsigned long offset) -'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. -Accessing addresses beyond the region specified in the -creation function yields undefined results. Using an offset -which is not page aligned yields an undefined result. The -return value points to a single page in CPU address space. +'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. Accessing +addresses beyond the region specified in the creation function yields +undefined results. Using an offset which is not page aligned yields an +undefined result. The return value points to a single page in CPU address +space. -This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the -page and may only be used with mappings created by -io_mapping_create_wc +This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be +used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc() -Note that the task may not sleep while holding this page -mapped. +Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping +is not guaranteed to be globaly visible. -:: +io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables +migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side +effect. - void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr) +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() has the side effect of disabling preemption and +pagefaults. Don't use in new code. Use io_mapping_map_local_wc() instead. -'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last -io_mapping_map_atomic_wc call. This unmaps the specified -page and allows the task to sleep once again. +Nested mappings need to be undone in reverse order because the mapping +code uses a stack for keeping track of them:: -If you need to sleep while holding the lock, you can use the non-atomic -variant, although they may be significantly slower. + addr1 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map1, offset1); + addr2 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map2, offset2); + ... + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr2); + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr1); -:: +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap_local(void *vaddr) + void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr) + +'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() call. This unmaps the specified mapping and +undoes the side effects of the mapping functions. + +If you need to sleep while holding a mapping, you can use the regular +variant, although this may be significantly slower:: void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, unsigned long offset) -This works like io_mapping_map_atomic_wc except it allows -the task to sleep while holding the page mapped. - +This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side +effects and the pointer is globaly visible. -:: +The mappings are released with:: void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr) -This works like io_mapping_unmap_atomic, except it is used -for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc. +Use for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc(). At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed:: |