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mmc: at91_mci: don't use coherent dma buffers 

At91_mci is abusing dma_free_coherent(), which may not be called with IRQs
disabled.  I saw "mkfs.ext3" on an MMC card objecting voluminously as each
write completed:

 WARNING: at arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:368 dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224()
 [<c002726c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00387d4>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x4c/0x68)
 [<c0038788>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x0/0x68) from [<c0028768>] (dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224)
  r6:00008008 r5:ffc06000 r4:00000000
 [<c002873c>] (dma_free_coherent+0x0/0x224) from [<c01918ac>] (at91_mci_irq+0x374/0x420)
 [<c0191538>] (at91_mci_irq+0x0/0x420) from [<c0065d9c>] (handle_IRQ_event+0x2c/0x6c)
 ...

This bug has been around for a LONG time.  The MM warning is from late
2005, but the driver merged a year later ...  so I'm puzzled why nobody
noticed this before now.

The fix involves noting that this buffer shouldn't be DMA-coherent; it's
just used for normal DMA writes.  So replace it with standard kmalloc()
buffering and DMA mapping calls.

This is the quickie fix.  A better one would not rely on allocating large
bounce buffers.  (Note that dma_alloc_coherent could have failed too, but
that case was ignored...  kmalloc is a bit more likely to fail though.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Brownell 2008-09-02 14:35:46 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 363f66fe06
commit e385ea63f4
1 changed files with 16 additions and 4 deletions
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drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c
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@ -621,12 +621,21 @@ static void at91_mci_send_command(struct at91mci_host *host, struct mmc_command
if (cpu_is_at91sam9260 () || cpu_is_at91sam9263())
if (host->total_length < 12)
host->total_length = 12;
host->buffer = dma_alloc_coherent(NULL,
host->total_length,
&host->physical_address, GFP_KERNEL);
host->buffer = kmalloc(host->total_length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!host->buffer) {
pr_debug("Can't alloc tx buffer\n");
cmd->error = -ENOMEM;
mmc_request_done(host->mmc, host->request);
return;
}
at91_mci_sg_to_dma(host, data);
host->physical_address = dma_map_single(NULL,
host->buffer, host->total_length,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
pr_debug("Transmitting %d bytes\n", host->total_length);
at91_mci_write(host, ATMEL_PDC_TPR, host->physical_address);
@ -694,7 +703,10 @@ static void at91_mci_completed_command(struct at91mci_host *host, unsigned int s
cmd->resp[3] = at91_mci_read(host, AT91_MCI_RSPR(3));
if (host->buffer) {
dma_free_coherent(NULL, host->total_length, host->buffer, host->physical_address);
dma_unmap_single(NULL,
host->physical_address, host->total_length,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
kfree(host->buffer);
host->buffer = NULL;
}