net: ep93xx_eth: fix DMA API violations
Russell King said:
>
> So, to summarize what its doing:
>
> 1. It allocates buffers for rx and tx.
> 2. It maps them with dma_map_single().
> This transfers ownership of the buffer to the DMA device.
> 3. In ep93xx_xmit,
> 3a. It copies the data into the buffer with skb_copy_and_csum_dev()
> This violates the DMA buffer ownership rules - the CPU should
> not be writing to this buffer while it is (in principle) owned
> by the DMA device.
> 3b. It then calls dma_sync_single_for_cpu() for the buffer.
> This transfers ownership of the buffer to the CPU, which surely
> is the wrong direction.
> 4. In ep93xx_rx,
> 4a. It calls dma_sync_single_for_cpu() for the buffer.
> This at least transfers the DMA buffer ownership to the CPU
> before the CPU reads the buffer
> 4b. It then uses skb_copy_to_linear_data() to copy the data out.
> At no point does it transfer ownership back to the DMA device.
> 5. When the driver is removed, it dma_unmap_single()'s the buffer.
> This transfers ownership of the buffer to the CPU.
> 6. It frees the buffer.
>
> While it may work on ep93xx, it's not respecting the DMA API rules,
> and with DMA debugging enabled it will probably encounter quite a few
> warnings.
This patch fixes these violations.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Tested-by: Petr Stetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>