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<title>ALSA: memalloc: Remove a stale comment</title>
<updated>2021-11-10T06:35:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T06:31:00+00:00</published>
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The comment about the reused vmalloc helpers is no longer valid after
the recent change for the noncontig allocator.  Drop the stale
comment.

Fixes: ad4f93ca4138 ("ALSA: memalloc: Use proper SG helpers for noncontig allocations")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110063100.21359-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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The comment about the reused vmalloc helpers is no longer valid after
the recent change for the noncontig allocator.  Drop the stale
comment.

Fixes: ad4f93ca4138 ("ALSA: memalloc: Use proper SG helpers for noncontig allocations")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110063100.21359-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Use proper SG helpers for noncontig allocations</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T06:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-08T15:10:59+00:00</published>
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The recently introduced non-contiguous page allocation support helpers
are using the simplified code to calculate the page and DMA address
based on the vmalloc helpers, but this isn't quite right as the vmap
is valid only for the direct DMA.

This patch corrects those accessors to use the proper SG helpers
instead.

Fixes: a25684a95646 ("ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-contiguous page allocation")
Tested-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) &lt;alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211108151059.31898-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
The recently introduced non-contiguous page allocation support helpers
are using the simplified code to calculate the page and DMA address
based on the vmalloc helpers, but this isn't quite right as the vmap
is valid only for the direct DMA.

This patch corrects those accessors to use the proper SG helpers
instead.

Fixes: a25684a95646 ("ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-contiguous page allocation")
Tested-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) &lt;alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211108151059.31898-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ALSA: PCM: Fix NULL dereference at mmap checks</title>
<updated>2021-11-07T16:55:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-07T16:39:11+00:00</published>
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The recent refactoring of mmap handling caused Oops on some devices
that don't use the standard memory allocations.  This patch addresses
it by allowing snd_dma_buffer_mmap() helper to receive the NULL
pointer dmab argument (and return an error appropriately).

Fixes: a202bd1ad86d ("ALSA: core: Move mmap handler into memalloc ops")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211107163911.13534-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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The recent refactoring of mmap handling caused Oops on some devices
that don't use the standard memory allocations.  This patch addresses
it by allowing snd_dma_buffer_mmap() helper to receive the NULL
pointer dmab argument (and return an error appropriately).

Fixes: a202bd1ad86d ("ALSA: core: Move mmap handler into memalloc ops")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211107163911.13534-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Catch call with NULL snd_dma_buffer pointer</title>
<updated>2021-11-05T10:27:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T10:21:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Although we've covered all calls with NULL dma buffer pointer, so far,
there may be still some else in the wild.  For catching such a case
more easily, add a WARN_ON_ONCE() in snd_dma_get_ops().

Fixes: 37af81c5998f ("ALSA: core: Abstract memory alloc helpers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105102103.28148-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Although we've covered all calls with NULL dma buffer pointer, so far,
there may be still some else in the wild.  For catching such a case
more easily, add a WARN_ON_ONCE() in snd_dma_get_ops().

Fixes: 37af81c5998f ("ALSA: core: Abstract memory alloc helpers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105102103.28148-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "ALSA: memalloc: Convert x86 SG-buffer handling with non-contiguous type"</title>
<updated>2021-11-04T21:10:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-04T18:08:46+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 2d9ea39917a4e4293bc2caea902c7059a330b611.

We've got a regression report showing that the audio got broken the
device over AMD IOMMU.  The conversion assumed the wrong pointer /
page mapping for the indirect mapping case, and we need to correct
this urgently, so let's revert it for now.

Fixes: 2d9ea39917a4 ("ALSA: memalloc: Convert x86 SG-buffer handling with non-contiguous type")
Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) &lt;alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104180846.16340-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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This reverts commit 2d9ea39917a4e4293bc2caea902c7059a330b611.

We've got a regression report showing that the audio got broken the
device over AMD IOMMU.  The conversion assumed the wrong pointer /
page mapping for the indirect mapping case, and we need to correct
this urgently, so let's revert it for now.

Fixes: 2d9ea39917a4 ("ALSA: memalloc: Convert x86 SG-buffer handling with non-contiguous type")
Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) &lt;alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104180846.16340-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Fix a typo in snd_dma_buffer_sync() description</title>
<updated>2021-10-19T06:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-19T06:05:36+00:00</published>
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It caused a warning for kernel-doc build.

Fixes: a25684a95646 ("ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-contiguous page allocation")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019165402.4fa82c38@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019060536.26089-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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It caused a warning for kernel-doc build.

Fixes: a25684a95646 ("ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-contiguous page allocation")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019165402.4fa82c38@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019060536.26089-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Convert x86 SG-buffer handling with non-contiguous type</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T11:32:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-17T07:48:59+00:00</published>
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We've had an x86-specific SG-buffer handling code, but now it can be
merged gracefully with the standard non-contiguous DMA pages.

After the migration, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DMA_SG becomes identical with
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_NONCONTIG on x86, while others still fall back to
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV.

The remaining problem is about the SG-buffer with WC pages: the DMA
core stuff on x86 doesn't treat it well, so we still need some special
handling to manipulate the page attribute manually.  The mmap handler
for SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG_WC still returns -ENOENT intentionally for
the fallback to the default handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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We've had an x86-specific SG-buffer handling code, but now it can be
merged gracefully with the standard non-contiguous DMA pages.

After the migration, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DMA_SG becomes identical with
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_NONCONTIG on x86, while others still fall back to
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV.

The remaining problem is about the SG-buffer with WC pages: the DMA
core stuff on x86 doesn't treat it well, so we still need some special
handling to manipulate the page attribute manually.  The mmap handler
for SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG_WC still returns -ENOENT intentionally for
the fallback to the default handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-coherent page allocation</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T11:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-17T07:48:58+00:00</published>
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Following to the addition of non-contiguous pages, this patch adds the
new contiguous non-coherent page allocation to the standard memalloc
helper.  Like the previous non-contig type, this non-coherent type is
also directional and requires the explicit sync, too.  Hence the
driver using this type of buffer may need to set
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_EXPLICIT_SYNC flag to the PCM hardware.info as well,
unless it's set up in the managed mode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-3-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Following to the addition of non-contiguous pages, this patch adds the
new contiguous non-coherent page allocation to the standard memalloc
helper.  Like the previous non-contig type, this non-coherent type is
also directional and requires the explicit sync, too.  Hence the
driver using this type of buffer may need to set
SNDRV_PCM_INFO_EXPLICIT_SYNC flag to the PCM hardware.info as well,
unless it's set up in the managed mode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-3-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Support for non-contiguous page allocation</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T11:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-17T07:48:57+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the support for allocation of non-contiguous DMA pages
in the common memalloc helper.  It's another SG-buffer type, but
unlike the existing one, this is directional and requires the explicit
sync / invalidation of dirty pages on non-coherent architectures.

For this enhancement, the following points are changed:
- snd_dma_device stores the DMA direction.
- snd_dma_device stores need_sync flag indicating whether the explicit
  sync is required or not.
- A new variant of helper functions, snd_dma_alloc_dir_pages() and
  *_all() are introduced; the old snd_dma_alloc_pages() and *_all()
  kept as just wrappers with DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.
- A new helper snd_dma_buffer_sync() is introduced; this gets called
  in the appropriate places.
- A new allocation type, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_NONCONTIG, is introduced.

When the driver allocates pages with this new type, and it may require
the SNDRV_PCM_INFO_EXPLICIT_SYNC flag set to the PCM hardware.info for
taking the full control of PCM applptr and hwptr changes (that implies
disabling the mmap of control/status data).  When the buffer
allocation is managed by snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer(), this flag is
automatically set depending on the result of dma_need_sync()
internally.  Otherwise, if the buffer is managed manually, the driver
has to set the flag explicitly, too.

The explicit sync between CPU and device for non-coherent memory is
performed at the points before and after read/write transfer as well
as the applptr/hwptr syncptr ioctl.  In the case of mmap mode,
user-space is supposed to call the syncptr ioctl with the hwptr flag
to update and fetch the status at first; this corresponds to CPU-sync.
Then user-space advances the applptr via syncptr ioctl again with
applptr flag, and this corresponds to the device sync with flushing.

Other than the DMA direction and the explicit sync, the usage of this
new buffer type is almost equivalent with the existing
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG; you can get the page and the address via
snd_sgbuf_get_page() and snd_sgbuf_get_addr(), also calculate the
continuous pages via snd_sgbuf_get_chunk_size().

For those SG-page handling, the non-contig type shares the same ops
with the vmalloc handler.  As we do always vmap the SG pages at first,
the actual address can be deduced from the vmapped address easily
without iterating the SG-list.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
This patch adds the support for allocation of non-contiguous DMA pages
in the common memalloc helper.  It's another SG-buffer type, but
unlike the existing one, this is directional and requires the explicit
sync / invalidation of dirty pages on non-coherent architectures.

For this enhancement, the following points are changed:
- snd_dma_device stores the DMA direction.
- snd_dma_device stores need_sync flag indicating whether the explicit
  sync is required or not.
- A new variant of helper functions, snd_dma_alloc_dir_pages() and
  *_all() are introduced; the old snd_dma_alloc_pages() and *_all()
  kept as just wrappers with DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.
- A new helper snd_dma_buffer_sync() is introduced; this gets called
  in the appropriate places.
- A new allocation type, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_NONCONTIG, is introduced.

When the driver allocates pages with this new type, and it may require
the SNDRV_PCM_INFO_EXPLICIT_SYNC flag set to the PCM hardware.info for
taking the full control of PCM applptr and hwptr changes (that implies
disabling the mmap of control/status data).  When the buffer
allocation is managed by snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer(), this flag is
automatically set depending on the result of dma_need_sync()
internally.  Otherwise, if the buffer is managed manually, the driver
has to set the flag explicitly, too.

The explicit sync between CPU and device for non-coherent memory is
performed at the points before and after read/write transfer as well
as the applptr/hwptr syncptr ioctl.  In the case of mmap mode,
user-space is supposed to call the syncptr ioctl with the hwptr flag
to update and fetch the status at first; this corresponds to CPU-sync.
Then user-space advances the applptr via syncptr ioctl again with
applptr flag, and this corresponds to the device sync with flushing.

Other than the DMA direction and the explicit sync, the usage of this
new buffer type is almost equivalent with the existing
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG; you can get the page and the address via
snd_sgbuf_get_page() and snd_sgbuf_get_addr(), also calculate the
continuous pages via snd_sgbuf_get_chunk_size().

For those SG-page handling, the non-contig type shares the same ops
with the vmalloc handler.  As we do always vmap the SG pages at first,
the actual address can be deduced from the vmapped address easily
without iterating the SG-list.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211017074859.24112-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: memalloc: Count continuous pages in vmalloc buffer handler</title>
<updated>2021-08-13T08:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T08:16:45+00:00</published>
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This is an enhancement for the SG-style page handling in vmalloc
buffer handler to calculate the continuous pages.
When snd_sgbuf_get_chunk_size() is called for a vmalloc buffer,
currently we return only the size that fits into a single page.
However, this API call is rather supposed for obtaining the continuous
pages and most of vmalloc or noncontig buffers do have lots of
continuous pages indeed.  So, in this patch, the callback now
calculates the possibly continuous pages up to the given size limit.

Note that the end address in the function is calculated from the last
byte, hence it's one byte shorter.  This is because ofs + size can be
above the actual buffer size boundary.

Until now, this feature isn't really used, but it'll become useful in
a later patch that adds the non-contiguous buffer type that shares the
same callback function as vmalloc.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812113818.6479-1-tiwai@suse.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210813081645.4680-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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This is an enhancement for the SG-style page handling in vmalloc
buffer handler to calculate the continuous pages.
When snd_sgbuf_get_chunk_size() is called for a vmalloc buffer,
currently we return only the size that fits into a single page.
However, this API call is rather supposed for obtaining the continuous
pages and most of vmalloc or noncontig buffers do have lots of
continuous pages indeed.  So, in this patch, the callback now
calculates the possibly continuous pages up to the given size limit.

Note that the end address in the function is calculated from the last
byte, hence it's one byte shorter.  This is because ofs + size can be
above the actual buffer size boundary.

Until now, this feature isn't really used, but it'll become useful in
a later patch that adds the non-contiguous buffer type that shares the
same callback function as vmalloc.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812113818.6479-1-tiwai@suse.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210813081645.4680-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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