Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 01 Jun 2007 21:01:45 +0200 |
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Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> writes:
> It turns out that the qla2xxx driver sometimes fills up the iotlb > on purpose and throttles itself when pci_map_sg() fails. In the > case of a driver that expects and handles pci_map_sg() failures, > we should not spam the user's console with swiotlb full messages.
Why does it do that? Could we supply a better interface for whatever it is trying to do here?
> */ > - printk(KERN_ERR "DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for %zu bytes at " > - "device %s\n", size, dev ? dev->bus_id : "?"); > + if (++warnings < 5) > + printk(KERN_ERR "DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for %zu bytes at " > + "device %s\n", size, dev ? dev->bus_id : "?");
Bad idea imho. swiotlb mappings should always lead to printk by default because it is pretty dangerous.
One possible solution for this I could think of would be to define a new pci_map_sg_couldfail() or similar that doesn't warn and use a weak fallback just calling pci_map_sg on other IOMMU implementations.
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