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 driver. 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 struct dma_attrs *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 struct dma_attrs *attrs) 378 379int 380dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, 381 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, 382 struct dma_attrs *attrs) 383 384void 385dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl, 386 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir, 387 struct dma_attrs *attrs) 388 389The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions 390without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional 391struct dma_attrs*. 392 393struct dma_attrs encapsulates a set of "DMA attributes". For the 394definition of struct dma_attrs see linux/dma-attrs.h. 395 396The interpretation of DMA attributes is architecture-specific, and 397each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt. 398 399If struct dma_attrs* is NULL, the semantics of each of these 400functions is identical to those of the corresponding function 401without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs() 402can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc. 403 404As an example of the use of the *_attrs functions, here's how 405you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory 406for DMA: 407 408#include <linux/dma-attrs.h> 409/* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-attrs.h and 410 * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */ 411... 412 413 DEFINE_DMA_ATTRS(attrs); 414 dma_set_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, &attrs); 415 .... 416 n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &attr); 417 .... 418 419Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its 420presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping 421routines, e.g.: 422 423void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, 424 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir, 425 struct dma_attrs *attrs) 426{ 427 .... 428 int foo = dma_get_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, attrs); 429 .... 430 if (foo) 431 /* twizzle the frobnozzle */ 432 .... 433 434 435Part II - Advanced dma_ usage 436----------------------------- 437 438Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the 439majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that 440don't belong in usual drivers. 441 442If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a 443processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the 444API at all. 445 446void * 447dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, 448 dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag) 449 450Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that the platform will 451choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory as it sees 452fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform that you 453have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory in the 454driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory. 455 456Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will 457guarantee that the sync points become nops. 458 459Warning: Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain. You should 460only use this API if you positively know your driver will be 461required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures 462that simply cannot make consistent memory. 463 464void 465dma_free_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, 466 dma_addr_t dma_handle) 467 468Free memory allocated by the nonconsistent API. All parameters must 469be identical to those passed in (and returned by 470dma_alloc_noncoherent()). 471 472int 473dma_get_cache_alignment(void) 474 475Returns the processor cache alignment. This is the absolute minimum 476alignment *and* width that you must observe when either mapping 477memory or doing partial flushes. 478 479Notes: This API may return a number *larger* than the actual cache 480line, but it will guarantee that one or more cache lines fit exactly 481into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power 482of two for easy alignment. 483 484void 485dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size, 486 enum dma_data_direction direction) 487 488Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by 489dma_alloc_noncoherent(), starting at virtual address vaddr and 490continuing on for size. Again, you *must* observe the cache line 491boundaries when doing this. 492 493int 494dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, 495 dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size, int 496 flags) 497 498Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when 499it's asked for coherent memory for this device. 500 501phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently 502assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region). 503 504device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed 505with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the 506dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()). 507 508size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE). 509 510flags can be ORed together and are: 511 512DMA_MEMORY_MAP - request that the memory returned from 513dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writable. 514 515DMA_MEMORY_IO - request that the memory returned from 516dma_alloc_coherent() be addressable using read()/write()/memcpy_toio() etc. 517 518One or both of these flags must be present. 519 520DMA_MEMORY_INCLUDES_CHILDREN - make the declared memory be allocated by 521dma_alloc_coherent of any child devices of this one (for memory residing 522on a bridge). 523 524DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE - only allocate memory from the declared regions. 525Do not allow dma_alloc_coherent() to fall back to system memory when 526it's out of memory in the declared region. 527 528The return value will be either DMA_MEMORY_MAP or DMA_MEMORY_IO and 529must correspond to a passed in flag (i.e. no returning DMA_MEMORY_IO 530if only DMA_MEMORY_MAP were passed in) for success or zero for 531failure. 532 533Note, for DMA_MEMORY_IO returns, all subsequent memory returned by 534dma_alloc_coherent() may no longer be accessed directly, but instead 535must be accessed using the correct bus functions. If your driver 536isn't prepared to handle this contingency, it should not specify 537DMA_MEMORY_IO in the input flags. 538 539As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of 540memory may be declared per device. 541 542For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared 543region only at the granularity of a page. For smaller allocations, 544you should use the dma_pool() API. 545 546void 547dma_release_declared_memory(struct device *dev) 548 549Remove the memory region previously declared from the system. This 550API performs *no* in-use checking for this region and will return 551unconditionally having removed all the required structures. It is the 552driver's job to ensure that no parts of this memory region are 553currently in use. 554 555void * 556dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied(struct device *dev, 557 dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size) 558 559This is used to occupy specific regions of the declared space 560(dma_alloc_coherent() will hand out the first free region it finds). 561 562device_addr is the *device* address of the region requested. 563 564size is the size (and should be a page-sized multiple). 565 566The return value will be either a pointer to the processor virtual 567address of the memory, or an error (via PTR_ERR()) if any part of the 568region is occupied. 569 570Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API 571------------------------------------------- 572 573The DMA-API as described above has some constraints. DMA addresses must be 574released with the corresponding function with the same size for example. With 575the advent of hardware IOMMUs it becomes more and more important that drivers 576do not violate those constraints. In the worst case such a violation can 577result in data corruption up to destroyed filesystems. 578 579To debug drivers and find bugs in the usage of the DMA-API checking code can 580be compiled into the kernel which will tell the developer about those 581violations. If your architecture supports it you can select the "Enable 582debugging of DMA-API usage" option in your kernel configuration. Enabling this 583option has a performance impact. Do not enable it in production kernels. 584 585If you boot the resulting kernel will contain code which does some bookkeeping 586about what DMA memory was allocated for which device. If this code detects an 587error it prints a warning message with some details into your kernel log. An 588example warning message may look like this: 589 590------------[ cut here ]------------ 591WARNING: at /data2/repos/linux-2.6-iommu/lib/dma-debug.c:448 592 check_unmap+0x203/0x490() 593Hardware name: 594forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with wrong 595 function [device address=0x00000000640444be] [size=66 bytes] [mapped as 596single] [unmapped as page] 597Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc r8169 598Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-dmatest-09289-g8bb99c0 #1 599Call Trace: 600 <IRQ> [<ffffffff80240b22>] warn_slowpath+0xf2/0x130 601 [<ffffffff80647b70>] _spin_unlock+0x10/0x30 602 [<ffffffff80537e75>] usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep+0x75/0xc0 603 [<ffffffff80647c22>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40 604 [<ffffffff8055347f>] ohci_urb_enqueue+0x19f/0x7c0 605 [<ffffffff80252f96>] queue_work+0x56/0x60 606 [<ffffffff80237e10>] enqueue_task_fair+0x20/0x50 607 [<ffffffff80539279>] usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x379/0xbc0 608 [<ffffffff803b78c3>] cpumask_next_and+0x23/0x40 609 [<ffffffff80235177>] find_busiest_group+0x207/0x8a0 610 [<ffffffff8064784f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0x50 611 [<ffffffff803c7ea3>] check_unmap+0x203/0x490 612 [<ffffffff803c8259>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x49/0x50 613 [<ffffffff80485f26>] nv_tx_done_optimized+0xc6/0x2c0 614 [<ffffffff80486c13>] nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x73/0x2b0 615 [<ffffffff8026df84>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x70 616 [<ffffffff8026ffe9>] handle_edge_irq+0xc9/0x150 617 [<ffffffff8020e3ab>] do_IRQ+0xcb/0x1c0 618 [<ffffffff8020c093>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa 619 <EOI> <4>---[ end trace f6435a98e2a38c0e ]--- 620 621The driver developer can find the driver and the device including a stacktrace 622of the DMA-API call which caused this warning. 623 624Per default only the first error will result in a warning message. All other 625errors will only silently counted. This limitation exist to prevent the code 626from flooding your kernel log. To support debugging a device driver this can 627be disabled via debugfs. See the debugfs interface documentation below for 628details. 629 630The debugfs directory for the DMA-API debugging code is called dma-api/. In 631this directory the following files can currently be found: 632 633 dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this 634 value is not equal to zero the debugging code 635 will print a warning for every error it finds 636 into the kernel log. Be careful with this 637 option, as it can easily flood your logs. 638 639 dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y' 640 if the debugging code is disabled. This can 641 happen when it runs out of memory or if it was 642 disabled at boot time 643 644 dma-api/error_count This file is read-only and shows the total 645 numbers of errors found. 646 647 dma-api/num_errors The number in this file shows how many 648 warnings will be printed to the kernel log 649 before it stops. This number is initialized to 650 one at system boot and be set by writing into 651 this file 652 653 dma-api/min_free_entries 654 This read-only file can be read to get the 655 minimum number of free dma_debug_entries the 656 allocator has ever seen. If this value goes 657 down to zero the code will disable itself 658 because it is not longer reliable. 659 660 dma-api/num_free_entries 661 The current number of free dma_debug_entries 662 in the allocator. 663 664 dma-api/driver-filter 665 You can write a name of a driver into this file 666 to limit the debug output to requests from that 667 particular driver. Write an empty string to 668 that file to disable the filter and see 669 all errors again. 670 671If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default. 672If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide 673'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging. 674Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do 675so. 676 677If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can 678specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the 679driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that 680driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs. 681 682When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran 683out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number 684of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you 685boot with 'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the 686architectural default. 687 688void debug_dmap_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr); 689 690dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail 691to check DMA mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and 692dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by 693debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by 694the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if 695this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that 696leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error() 697routines to enable DMA mapping error check debugging. 698 699