Re: dsp mmap change

On Monday, May 09, 2011 11:35:07 am Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, May 07, 2011 3:16:25 pm Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:16:40PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 10:04:28 am Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:38:00PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > > > > on 06/05/2011 16:32 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> > > > > > > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:55:00AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following
> > patch:
> > > > > > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/dev_dsp_mmap.diff
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> It's supposed to fix an issue described here:
> > > > > > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-
> > > > February/011691.html
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> In short, the following pseudo-code should do the right thing:
> > > > > > >> fd = open(/dev/dsp, O_RDWR);
> > > > > > >> mmap(PROT_READ, fd);
> > > > > > >> mmap(PROT_WRITE, fd);
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Thank you!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I think that you have to call PCM_GIANT_LEAVE() when returning
> > > > > > > EINVAL on the vm_pager_alloc() failure.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, thank you.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Your patch hardcodes an assumption that sndbufs are always
> > > > > > > contiguous. I was unable to convince myself that this is true.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think that this should be true for the case when DMA is used?
> > > > > In the current driver, yes, but there is nothing that theoretically
> > > > > prevents scatter-gather from be used.
> > > >
> > > > You could "fix" this by creating an sglist (via sglist_build()) and an
> > > > OBJT_SG VM object that the d_mmap_single callback returned.  I wish
> > there
> > > > was a cleaner way to just create a VM object and populate it with pages
> > > > though, and then use vm_map_insert() to map it into the kernel rather
> > > > than the more roundabout method of OBJT_SG.
> > >
> > > You cannot have one page inserted into two vm objects. Contigmalloc()
> > > inserts the allocated pages into kernel_object.
> >
> > Yes, I would want to allocate N unmapped pages and stuff them into a VM
> > object that can then be mapped into the kernel and/or into user mappings.
> > This would be a much cleaner approach for the nvidia driver for example.
> >
> >
> There is a relatively new function, vm_object_populate(), that allocates a
> collection of pages, inserts them into a vm object, and validates them for
> use.  This function exits in FreeBSD 7.x, 8.x, and HEAD.

Hmm, is there a way to specify restrictions on the pages allocated similar to
what contigmalloc() supports (e.g. being able to allocate pages in the lower
4GB is something the Nvidia driver needs)?

IOW, a method about like contigmalloc() that returned a VM object holding
pages meeting the desired restrictions but didn't necessarily map the
pages.  kmem_alloc_attr() is close to this except it always inserts the
pages into the kernel_object and always maps the pages into the address space.

-- 
John Baldwin