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Merge tag 'i3c/for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linuxgrafted
Pull I3C updates from Alexandre Belloni: "A new driver this cycle, for the AMD AXI I3C controller. There are also new features such as IBI wakeup support, SETAASA device discovery and ACPI support for the the DAA methods, meaning we can now communicate with the SPD devices on DDR5 modules. New driver: - AMD AXI I3C master controller Subsystem: - I3C Common Command Code (CCC) handling improvements, especially around GET CCCs - SETAASA device discovery support - ACPI support for all existing DAA methods like SETDASA, SETNEWDA as well as I2C devices on I3C bus - IBI-based wakeup support Drivers: - dw: SETAASA support - mipi-i3c-hci: advertise IBI wakeup capability, AMD_PT I3C controller support, PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2 - renesas: improve suspend to RAM support, add runtime PM support" * tag 'i3c/for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linux: (70 commits) i3c: dw: reduce do_daa time if there's no client i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add support for AMD_PT I3C controller i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2 i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix missing STAT_IBI_STATUS_THLD in PIO mode i3c: dw: rename "pclk" to "apb" to match dt-binding i3c: dw: make struct dw_i3c_cmd smaller i3c: dw: use COMMAND_PORT_TRANSFER_ARG instead of hardcoding i3c: renesas: Don't register devices when ENTDAA times out i3c: master: dw-i3c-master: fix OD timing for first broadcast i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Advertise IBI wakeup capability i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Factor out i3c_hci_sysdev() i3c: mipi-i3c-hci-pci: Propagate I3C wakeup requirements to PCI i3c: master: Reject IBI requests from non-IBI-capable devices i3c: master: Add helper to query bus wakeup requirements i3c: master: Report wakeup events for IBIs i3c: master: Support IBI-based wakeup capability i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_match() i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_uevent() i3c: Make dev->desc locking assumptions explicit i3c: master: Fix use-after-free of master->this ...
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+USB DMA
+~~~~~~~
+
+In Linux 2.5 kernels (and later), USB device drivers have additional control
+over how DMA may be used to perform I/O operations. The APIs are detailed
+in the kernel usb programming guide (kerneldoc, from the source code).
+
+API overview
+============
+
+The big picture is that USB drivers can continue to ignore most DMA issues,
+though they still must provide DMA-ready buffers (see
+Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst). That's how they've worked through
+the 2.4 (and earlier) kernels, or they can now be DMA-aware.
+
+DMA-aware usb drivers:
+
+- New calls enable DMA-aware drivers, letting them allocate dma buffers and
+ manage dma mappings for existing dma-ready buffers (see below).
+
+- URBs have an additional "transfer_dma" field, as well as a transfer_flags
+ bit saying if it's valid. (Control requests also have "setup_dma", but
+ drivers must not use it.)
+
+- "usbcore" will map this DMA address, if a DMA-aware driver didn't do
+ it first and set ``URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP``. HCDs
+ don't manage dma mappings for URBs.
+
+- There's a new "generic DMA API", parts of which are usable by USB device
+ drivers. Never use dma_set_mask() on any USB interface or device; that
+ would potentially break all devices sharing that bus.
+
+Eliminating copies
+==================
+
+It's good to avoid making CPUs copy data needlessly. The costs can add up,
+and effects like cache-trashing can impose subtle penalties.
+
+- If you're doing lots of small data transfers from the same buffer all
+ the time, that can really burn up resources on systems which use an
+ IOMMU to manage the DMA mappings. It can cost MUCH more to set up and
+ tear down the IOMMU mappings with each request than perform the I/O!
+
+ For those specific cases, USB has primitives to allocate less expensive
+ memory. They work like kmalloc and kfree versions that give you the right
+ kind of addresses to store in urb->transfer_buffer and urb->transfer_dma.
+ You'd also set ``URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP`` in urb->transfer_flags::
+
+ void *usb_alloc_coherent (struct usb_device *dev, size_t size,
+ int mem_flags, dma_addr_t *dma);
+
+ void usb_free_coherent (struct usb_device *dev, size_t size,
+ void *addr, dma_addr_t dma);
+
+ Most drivers should **NOT** be using these primitives; they don't need
+ to use this type of memory ("dma-coherent"), and memory returned from
+ :c:func:`kmalloc` will work just fine.
+
+ The memory buffer returned is "dma-coherent"; sometimes you might need to
+ force a consistent memory access ordering by using memory barriers. It's
+ not using a streaming DMA mapping, so it's good for small transfers on
+ systems where the I/O would otherwise thrash an IOMMU mapping. (See
+ Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst for definitions of "coherent" and
+ "streaming" DMA mappings.)
+
+ Asking for 1/Nth of a page (as well as asking for N pages) is reasonably
+ space-efficient.
+
+ On most systems the memory returned will be uncached, because the
+ semantics of dma-coherent memory require either bypassing CPU caches
+ or using cache hardware with bus-snooping support. While x86 hardware
+ has such bus-snooping, many other systems use software to flush cache
+ lines to prevent DMA conflicts.
+
+- Devices on some EHCI controllers could handle DMA to/from high memory.
+
+ Unfortunately, the current Linux DMA infrastructure doesn't have a sane
+ way to expose these capabilities ... and in any case, HIGHMEM is mostly a
+ design wart specific to x86_32. So your best bet is to ensure you never
+ pass a highmem buffer into a USB driver. That's easy; it's the default
+ behavior. Just don't override it; e.g. with ``NETIF_F_HIGHDMA``.
+
+ This may force your callers to do some bounce buffering, copying from
+ high memory to "normal" DMA memory. If you can come up with a good way
+ to fix this issue (for x86_32 machines with over 1 GByte of memory),
+ feel free to submit patches.
+
+Working with existing buffers
+=============================
+
+Existing buffers aren't usable for DMA without first being mapped into the
+DMA address space of the device. However, most buffers passed to your
+driver can safely be used with such DMA mapping. (See the first section
+of Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst, titled "What memory is DMA-able?")
+
+- When you have the scatterlists which have been mapped for the USB controller,
+ you could use the new ``usb_sg_*()`` calls, which would turn scatterlist
+ into URBs::
+
+ int usb_sg_init(struct usb_sg_request *io, struct usb_device *dev,
+ unsigned pipe, unsigned period, struct scatterlist *sg,
+ int nents, size_t length, gfp_t mem_flags);
+
+ void usb_sg_wait(struct usb_sg_request *io);
+
+ void usb_sg_cancel(struct usb_sg_request *io);
+
+ When the USB controller doesn't support DMA, the ``usb_sg_init()`` would try
+ to submit URBs in PIO way as long as the page in scatterlists is not in the
+ Highmem, which could be very rare in modern architectures.