using ioremap() memory in dma_map_sg()

From: Olga Kitaina
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 11:30:04 EST


Hi.
As part of our driver, we want to have some device memory to be available to other devices via the DMA-BUF subsystem. The device memory is managed by genpool, and mapped from the sram driver via ioremap_wc(). We initially used sg_set_buf() with the virtual address returned from gen_pool_dma_alloc(), but it seems like the wrong thing to do, since the virt_addr_valid() check fails. Attempting to use vmalloc_to_page() results in a failure down the line, such as:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ba405000
Backtrace:
(dma_cache_maint_page) from (__dma_page_dev_to_cpu+0x88/0x108)
(__dma_page_dev_to_cpu) from (arm_dma_map_page+0x5c/0x60)
(arm_dma_unmap_page) from (arm_dma_map_sg+0x64/0x8c)
(arm_dma_unmap_sg) from(foo_dmabuf_map+0x60/0x8c [foo])

Is there an appropriate way to put an ioremapped buffer into an SG table?

Thanks,
Olga.