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tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()
As well known, hvc backend driver(eg, virtio-console) can register its operations to hvc framework. The operations can contain put_chars(), get_chars() and so on. Some hvc backend may do dma in its operations. eg, put_chars() of virtio-console. But in the code of hvc framework, it may pass DMA incapable memory to put_chars() under a specific configuration, which is explained in commit c4baad5(virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack): 1, c[] is on stack, hvc_console_print(): char c[N_OUTBUF] __ALIGNED__; cons_ops[index]->put_chars(vtermnos[index], c, i); 2, ch is on stack, static void hvc_poll_put_char(,,char ch) { struct tty_struct *tty = driver->ttys[0]; struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data; int n; do { n = hp->ops->put_chars(hp->vtermno, &ch, 1); } while (n <= 0); } Commit c4baad5 is just the fix to avoid DMA from stack memory, which is passed to virtio-console by hvc framework in above code. But I think the fix is aggressive, it directly uses kmemdup() to alloc new buffer from kmalloc area and do memcpy no matter the memory is in kmalloc area or not. But most importantly, it should better be fixed in the hvc framework, by changing it to never pass stack memory to the put_chars() function in the first place. Otherwise, we still face the same issue if a new hvc backend using dma added in the future. In this patch, we make 'char out_buf[N_OUTBUF]' and 'chat out_ch' part of 'struct hvc_struct', so both two buf are no longer the stack memory. we can use it in above two cases separately. Introduce another array(cons_outbufs[]) for buffer pointers next to the cons_ops[] and vtermnos[] arrays. With the array, we can easily find the buffer, instead of traversing hp list. With the patch, we can remove the fix c4baad5. Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
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