Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 11:03:11 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: attilio@freebsd.org Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Benno Rice <benno@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "Peel, Casey" <casey.peel@isilon.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r266775 - head/sys/x86/x86 Message-ID: <201405301103.11980.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-FndDzh1qSsHSAXbYQoYrFGC5aHRG1Z1t18Jnzg0qUBNxAQw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201405272131.s4RLVBEU035321@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-FndDzh1qSsHSAXbYQoYrFGC5aHRG1Z1t18Jnzg0qUBNxAQw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:54:06 am Attilio Rao wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: scottl > > Date: Tue May 27 21:31:11 2014 > > New Revision: 266775 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266775 > > > > Log: > > Eliminate the fake contig_dmamap and replace it with a new flag, > > BUS_DMA_KMEM_ALLOC. They serve the same purpose, but using the flag > > means that the map can be NULL again, which in turn enables significant > > optimizations for the common case of no bouncing. > > While I think this is in general a good idea, unfortunately our > drivers do so many dumb things when freeing DMA allocated buffers that > having a NULL map is going to cause some "turbolence" and make such > bugs more visible. > An example is with ATA, where I think this fix is needed: > http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/dmamem_free-ata.patch > > Otherwise, what can happen with bounce buffers, is that the allocated > memory via contig malloc was not going to be freed anytime. > > I tried to look around and I found questionable (read broken) code in > basically every driver which allocates DMA buffers, so I really don't > feel I want to fix the majority of our drivers. I just think such > paths are not excercised enough to be seen in practice often or the > bugs just get unnoticed. Eh, many maps for static allocations were already NULL and have been for a long time. This is nothign new. Plus, the diff you posted has a bug regardless of explicitly destroying a map created by bus_dmamem_alloc(). -- John Baldwin
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