On 9 May 2016 at 22:17, Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:44:42PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:37, Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:55:33PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> >> DmaMap () operations of type MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer should
>> >> return a mapping that is coherent between the CPU and the device. For
>> >> this reason, the API only allows DmaMap () to be called with this 
>> >> operation
>> >> type if the memory to be mapped was allocated by DmaAllocateBuffer (),
>> >> which in this implementation guarantees the coherency by using uncached
>> >> mappings on the CPU side.
>> >>
>> >> This means that, if we encounter a cached mapping in DmaMap () with this
>> >> operation type, the code is either broken, or someone is violating the
>> >> API, but simply proceeding with a double buffer makes no sense at all,
>> >> and can only cause problems.
>> >>
>> >> So instead, actively reject this operation type for cached memory 
>> >> mappings.
>> >>
>> >> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
>> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
>> >> ---
>> >>  ArmPkg/Library/ArmDmaLib/ArmDmaLib.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>> >>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmDmaLib/ArmDmaLib.c 
>> >> b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmDmaLib/ArmDmaLib.c
>> >> index 7f6598318a91..7e518ed3b83e 100644
>> >> --- a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmDmaLib/ArmDmaLib.c
>> >> +++ b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmDmaLib/ArmDmaLib.c
>> >> @@ -103,6 +103,18 @@ DmaMap (
>> >>      // If the mapped buffer is not an uncached buffer
>> >>      if ((GcdDescriptor.Attributes & (EFI_MEMORY_WB | EFI_MEMORY_WT)) != 
>> >> 0) {
>> >>        //
>> >> +      // Operations of type MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer are only 
>> >> allowed
>> >> +      // on uncached buffers.
>> >> +      //
>> >> +      if (Operation == MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer) {
>> >> +        DEBUG ((EFI_D_ERROR,
>> >> +          "%a: Operation type 'MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer' is 
>> >> only supported\n"
>> >> +          "on memory regions that were allocated using DmaAllocateBuffer 
>> >> ()\n",
>> >> +          __FUNCTION__));
>> >> +        return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
>> >> +      }
>> >> +
>> >> +      //
>> >>        // If the buffer does not fill entire cache lines we must double 
>> >> buffer into
>> >>        // uncached memory. Device (PCI) address becomes uncached page.
>> >>        //
>> >> @@ -112,7 +124,7 @@ DmaMap (
>> >>          return Status;
>> >>        }
>> >>
>> >> -      if ((Operation == MapOperationBusMasterRead) || (Operation == 
>> >> MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer)) {
>> >> +      if (Operation == MapOperationBusMasterRead) {
>> >>          CopyMem (Buffer, HostAddress, *NumberOfBytes);
>> >>        }
>> >>
>> >> @@ -168,7 +180,9 @@ DmaUnmap (
>> >>    Map = (MAP_INFO_INSTANCE *)Mapping;
>> >>
>> >>    if (Map->DoubleBuffer) {
>> >> -    if ((Map->Operation == MapOperationBusMasterWrite) || 
>> >> (Map->Operation == MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer)) {
>> >> +    ASSERT (Map->Operation != MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer);
>> >
>> > Would it be more correct to return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR if this
>> > condition became true?
>>
>> I don't think so. We should never create double buffer mappings for
>> MapOperationBusMasterCommonBuffer operations, so in the unmap path, an
>> ASSERT () is appropriate, since the code is doing something *very* if
>> this ever occurs.
>
> Yeah, that was kind of my meaning:
> The only way it could happen would be through
> * memory corruption
> * intentional manipulation of the structure
> both of which would make it hard to guarantee that the data had been
> "committed to the target system memory".
>

Indeed. So an ASSERT () is appropriate here, but I guess you were
looking for an equivalent in RELEASE builds? In that case,
EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER seems more appropriate

> Anyway, it's not a hard requirement, more of a discussion point.
>
> Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>
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