@@ -51,6 +51,23 @@ compatible (optional) - standard definition
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used as a shared pool of DMA buffers for a set of devices. It can
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be used by an operating system to instantiate the necessary pool
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management subsystem if necessary.
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+ - restricted-dma-pool: This indicates a region of memory meant to be
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+ used as a pool of restricted DMA buffers for a set of devices. The
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+ memory region would be the only region accessible to those devices.
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+ When using this, the no-map and reusable properties must not be set,
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+ so the operating system can create a virtual mapping that will be used
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+ for synchronization. The main purpose for restricted DMA is to
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+ mitigate the lack of DMA access control on systems without an IOMMU,
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+ which could result in the DMA accessing the system memory at
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+ unexpected times and/or unexpected addresses, possibly leading to data
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+ leakage or corruption. The feature on its own provides a basic level
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+ of protection against the DMA overwriting buffer contents at
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+ unexpected times. However, to protect against general data leakage and
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+ system memory corruption, the system needs to provide way to lock down
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+ the memory access, e.g., MPU. Note that since coherent allocation
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+ needs remapping, one must set up another device coherent pool by
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+ shared-dma-pool and use dma_alloc_from_dev_coherent instead for atomic
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+ coherent allocation.
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- vendor specific string in the form <vendor>,[<device>-]<usage>
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no-map (optional) - empty property
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- Indicates the operating system must not create a virtual mapping
@@ -85,10 +102,11 @@ memory-region-names (optional) - a list of names, one for each corresponding
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Example
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-------
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- This example defines 3 contiguous regions are defined for Linux kernel:
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+ This example defines 4 contiguous regions for Linux kernel:
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one default of all device drivers (named linux,cma@72000000 and 64MiB in size),
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- one dedicated to the framebuffer device (named framebuffer@78000000, 8MiB), and
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- one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
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+ one dedicated to the framebuffer device (named framebuffer@78000000, 8MiB),
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+ one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB), and
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+ one for restricted dma pool (named restricted_dma_reserved@0x50000000, 64MiB).
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/ {
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#address-cells = <1>;
@@ -120,6 +138,11 @@ one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
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compatible = "acme,multimedia-memory";
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reg = <0x77000000 0x4000000>;
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};
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+
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+ restricted_dma_reserved: restricted_dma_reserved {
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+ compatible = "restricted-dma-pool";
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+ reg = <0x50000000 0x4000000>;
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+ };
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};
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/* ... */
@@ -138,4 +161,11 @@ one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
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memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;
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/* ... */
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};
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+ pcie_device: pcie_device@0,0 {
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+ reg = <0x83010000 0x0 0x00000000 0x0 0x00100000
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+ 0x83010000 0x0 0x00100000 0x0 0x00100000>;
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+ memory-region = <&restricted_dma_reserved>;
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+ /* ... */
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+ };
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};
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