Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756414AbZAJXz2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:55:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752545AbZAJXzM (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:55:12 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44504 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751778AbZAJXzK (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:55:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:54:35 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Joerg Roedel , Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, netdev@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/16] DMA-API debugging facility v2 Message-ID: <20090110235435.GD20843@elte.hu> References: <1231517970-20288-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1231517970-20288-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3972 Lines: 87 * Joerg Roedel wrote: > Hi, > > this is version 2 of the patchset which introduces code to debug drivers > usage of the DMA-API. Many thanks to all the reviewers and the useful > comments on the fist version of this patchset. Tests with hardware > IOMMUs have shown several bugs in drivers regarding the usage of that > API. Problems were found especially in network card drivers. > > These bugs often don't show up or have any negative impact if there is > no hardware IOMMU in use in the system. But with an hardware IOMMU these > bugs turn the hardware unusable or, in the worst case, cause data > corruption on devices which are managed by other (good) drivers. > > With the code these patches introduce driver developers can find several > bugs of misusing the DMA-API in their drivers. But be aware, it can not > find all possible bugs. If it finds a problem it prints out messages > like > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux.trees.git/lib/dma-debug.c:231 check_unmap+0xab/0x3d9() > Hardware name: Toonie > bnx2 0000:01:00.0: DMA-API: device driver tries to free DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x00000000011] > Modules linked in: > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28 #174 > Call Trace: > [] warn_slowpath+0xd3/0xf2 > [] ? find_usage_backwards+0xe2/0x116 > [] ? find_usage_backwards+0xe2/0x116 > [] ? usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x94/0xa0 > [] ? mark_lock+0x1c/0x364 > [] ? __lock_acquire+0xaec/0xb55 > [] ? mark_lock+0x1c/0x364 > [] ? get_hash_bucket+0x28/0x33 > [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x69/0x75 > [] ? get_hash_bucket+0x28/0x33 > [] check_unmap+0xab/0x3d9 > [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x108/0x14a > [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf > [] debug_unmap_single+0x3e/0x40 > [] dma_unmap_single+0x3d/0x60 > [] pci_unmap_page+0x1c/0x1e > [] bnx2_poll_work+0x626/0x8cb > [] ? __lock_acquire+0xaec/0xb55 > [] ? run_posix_cpu_timers+0x49c/0x603 > [] ? run_posix_cpu_timers+0x39c/0x603 > [] ? mark_lock+0x1c/0x364 > [] ? __lock_acquire+0xaec/0xb55 > [] bnx2_poll_msix+0x33/0x81 > [] net_rx_action+0x8a/0x139 > [] __do_softirq+0x8b/0x147 > [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x34 > [] do_softirq+0x39/0x90 > [] irq_exit+0x4e/0x98 > [] do_IRQ+0x11f/0x135 > [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf > <4>---[ end trace 4339d58302097423 ]--- > > This way driver developers get an idea where the problem is in their > code. > > I hope I addressed most of the review comments and objections from the > first version. Please give this version also a good review and send me > your comments. Looks pretty good in general - modulo the few observations i just made in reply to the patches. (Note, the comments apply to all the patches - there's similar small issues in other places as well.) Did you have a chance to look at debugobjects and see whether it could be reused as the dma-debug-entry object management code? One request: could you please git-base it on the changes in tip/core/iommu (i only have looked at the patches in email - i presume the current ones are based on -git)? That way we'll have it on top of Fujita's very nice DMA-mapping consolidation code. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/