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    net: ep93xx_eth: fix DMA API violations · f1c089e3
    Mika Westerberg authored
    Russell King said:
    >
    > So, to summarize what its doing:
    >
    > 1. It allocates buffers for rx and tx.
    > 2. It maps them with dma_map_single().
    >       This transfers ownership of the buffer to the DMA device.
    > 3. In ep93xx_xmit,
    > 3a. It copies the data into the buffer with skb_copy_and_csum_dev()
    >       This violates the DMA buffer ownership rules - the CPU should
    >       not be writing to this buffer while it is (in principle) owned
    >       by the DMA device.
    > 3b. It then calls dma_sync_single_for_cpu() for the buffer.
    >       This transfers ownership of the buffer to the CPU, which surely
    >       is the wrong direction.
    > 4. In ep93xx_rx,
    > 4a. It calls dma_sync_single_for_cpu() for the buffer.
    >       This at least transfers the DMA buffer ownership to the CPU
    >       before the CPU reads the buffer
    > 4b. It then uses skb_copy_to_linear_data() to copy the data out.
    >       At no point does it transfer ownership back to the DMA device.
    > 5. When the driver is removed, it dma_unmap_single()'s the buffer.
    >       This transfers ownership of the buffer to the CPU.
    > 6. It frees the buffer.
    >
    > While it may work on ep93xx, it's not respecting the DMA API rules,
    > and with DMA debugging enabled it will probably encounter quite a few
    > warnings.
    
    This patch fixes these violations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
    Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarH Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarPetr Stetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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