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| author | Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org> | 2026-09-02 15:31:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3a2c4d55e32ad65efebdb6de44eef3bfa08bb49d (patch) | |
| tree | c65086f9bdcd48c6360fb7cb4598bca084da1f32 /Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst | |
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treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsgrafted
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci
This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.
Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7274204b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +======================== +The io_mapping functions +======================== + +API +=== + +The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for +efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial +usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where +ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU +as it would consume too much of the kernel address space. + +A mapping object is created during driver initialization using:: + + struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base, + unsigned long size) + +'base' is the bus address of the region to be made +mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to +enable. Both are in bytes. + +This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used with +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(), io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_wc(). + +With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either temporarily +or long term, depending on the requirements. Of course, temporary maps are +more efficient. They come in two flavours:: + + void *io_mapping_map_local_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + + void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. Accessing +addresses beyond the region specified in the creation function yields +undefined results. Using an offset which is not page aligned yields an +undefined result. The return value points to a single page in CPU address +space. + +This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be +used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc() + +Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping +is not guaranteed to be globally visible. + +io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables +migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side +effect. + +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() has the side effect of disabling preemption and +pagefaults. Don't use in new code. Use io_mapping_map_local_wc() instead. + +Nested mappings need to be undone in reverse order because the mapping +code uses a stack for keeping track of them:: + + addr1 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map1, offset1); + addr2 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map2, offset2); + ... + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr2); + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr1); + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap_local(void *vaddr) + void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr) + +'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() call. This unmaps the specified mapping and +undoes the side effects of the mapping functions. + +If you need to sleep while holding a mapping, you can use the regular +variant, although this may be significantly slower:: + + void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side +effects and the pointer is globally visible. + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr) + +Use for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc(). + +At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed:: + + void io_mapping_free(struct io_mapping *mapping) |
