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Patch "mmc: sdhci: avoid unnecessary mapping/unmapping of align buffer" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mmc: sdhci: avoid unnecessary mapping/unmapping of align buffer

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mmc-sdhci-avoid-unnecessary-mapping-unmapping-of-align-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From edd63fcc97cdb53279a7c43fa1691f5913d92793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Russell King <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:39:50 +0000
Subject: mmc: sdhci: avoid unnecessary mapping/unmapping of align buffer

From: Russell King <[email protected]>

commit edd63fcc97cdb53279a7c43fa1691f5913d92793 upstream.

Unnecessarily mapping and unmapping the align buffer for SD cards is
expensive: performance measurements on iMX6 show that this gives a hit of 10% on hdparm buffered disk reads.

MMC/SD card IO comes from the mm/vfs which gives us page based IO, so for this case, the align buffer is not going to be used. However, we still map and unmap this buffer.

Eliminate this by switching the align buffer to be a DMA coherent buffer, which needs no DMA maintenance to access the buffer.

---
 drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c |   54 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c +18 -36
@@ -465,8 +465,6 @@ static void sdhci_adma_mark_end(void *de
 static int sdhci_adma_table_pre(struct sdhci_host *host,
 	struct mmc_data *data)
 {
-	int direction;
-
 	void *desc;
 	void *align;
 	dma_addr_t addr;
@@ -483,20 +481,9 @@ static int sdhci_adma_table_pre(struct s
 	 * We currently guess that it is LE.
 	 */
 
-	if (data->flags & MMC_DATA_READ)
-		direction = DMA_FROM_DEVICE;
-	else
-		direction = DMA_TO_DEVICE;
-
-	host->align_addr = dma_map_single(mmc_dev(host->mmc),
-		host->align_buffer, host->align_buffer_sz, direction);
-	if (dma_mapping_error(mmc_dev(host->mmc), host->align_addr))
-		goto fail;
-	BUG_ON(host->align_addr & SDHCI_ADMA2_MASK);
-
 	host->sg_count = sdhci_pre_dma_transfer(host, data);
 	if (host->sg_count < 0)
-		goto unmap_align;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	desc = host->adma_table;
 	align = host->align_buffer;
@@ -570,22 +557,7 @@ static int sdhci_adma_table_pre(struct s
 		/* nop, end, valid */
 		sdhci_adma_write_desc(host, desc, 0, 0, ADMA2_NOP_END_VALID);
 	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Resync align buffer as we might have changed it.
-	 */
-	if (data->flags & MMC_DATA_WRITE) {
-		dma_sync_single_for_device(mmc_dev(host->mmc),
-			host->align_addr, host->align_buffer_sz, direction);
-	}
-
 	return 0;
-
-unmap_align:
-	dma_unmap_single(mmc_dev(host->mmc), host->align_addr,
-		host->align_buffer_sz, direction);
-fail:
-	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static void sdhci_adma_table_post(struct sdhci_host *host,
@@ -605,9 +577,6 @@ static void sdhci_adma_table_post(struct
 	else
 		direction = DMA_TO_DEVICE;
 
-	dma_unmap_single(mmc_dev(host->mmc), host->align_addr,
-		host->align_buffer_sz, direction);
-
 	/* Do a quick scan of the SG list for any unaligned mappings */
 	has_unaligned = false;
 	for_each_sg(data->sg, sg, host->sg_count, i)
@@ -2984,14 +2953,21 @@ int sdhci_add_host(struct sdhci_host *ho
 						      &host->adma_addr,
 						      GFP_KERNEL);
 		host->align_buffer_sz = SDHCI_MAX_SEGS * SDHCI_ADMA2_ALIGN;
-		host->align_buffer = kmalloc(host->align_buffer_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+		host->align_buffer = dma_alloc_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc),
+							host->align_buffer_sz,
+							&host->align_addr,
+							GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!host->adma_table || !host->align_buffer) {
 			if (host->adma_table)
 				dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc),
 						  host->adma_table_sz,
 						  host->adma_table,
 						  host->adma_addr);
-			kfree(host->align_buffer);
+			if (host->align_buffer)
+				dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc),
+						  host->align_buffer_sz,
+						  host->align_buffer,
+						  host->align_addr);
 			pr_warn("%s: Unable to allocate ADMA buffers - falling back to standard DMA\n",
 				mmc_hostname(mmc));
 			host->flags &= ~SDHCI_USE_ADMA;
@@ -3003,10 +2979,14 @@ int sdhci_add_host(struct sdhci_host *ho
 			host->flags &= ~SDHCI_USE_ADMA;
 			dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc), host->adma_table_sz,
 					  host->adma_table, host->adma_addr);
-			kfree(host->align_buffer);
+			dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc), host->align_buffer_sz,
+					  host->align_buffer, host->align_addr);
 			host->adma_table = NULL;
 			host->align_buffer = NULL;
 		}
+
+		/* dma_alloc_coherent returns page aligned and sized buffers */
+		BUG_ON(host->align_addr & SDHCI_ADMA2_MASK);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -3469,7 +3449,9 @@ void sdhci_remove_host(struct sdhci_host
 	if (host->adma_table)
 		dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc), host->adma_table_sz,
 				  host->adma_table, host->adma_addr);
-	kfree(host->align_buffer);
+	if (host->align_buffer)
+		dma_free_coherent(mmc_dev(mmc), host->align_buffer_sz,
+				  host->align_buffer, host->align_addr);
 
 	host->adma_table = NULL;
 	host->align_buffer = NULL;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-fix-command-response-crc-error-handling.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-avoid-unnecessary-mapping-unmapping-of-align-buffer.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-move-initialisation-of-command-error-member.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-fix-data-timeout-part-2.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-clean-up-command-error-handling.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-further-fix-for-dma-unmapping-in-sdhci_post_req.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-pxav3-fix-higher-speed-mode-capabilities.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-fix-data-timeout-part-1.patch queue-4.5/mmc-sdhci-plug-dma-mapping-leak-on-error.patch