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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] Fix dma_mapping_error for 32bit x86
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> Devices like b44 ethernet can't dma from addresses above 1GB. The driver
> handles this cases by falling back to GFP_DMA allocation. But for detecting
> the problem it needs to get an indication from dma_mapping_error.
> The bug is triggered by using a VMSPLIT option of 2G/2G.

Looks like your system uses swiotlb as the dma_ops backend. Its the only
implementation providing the ops->mapping_error callback and does not
use bad_dma_address as the error value.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>

>
> diff -ru orig/linux-2.6.27.4/include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h linux-2.6.27.4/include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
> --- orig/linux-2.6.27.4/include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h 2008-10-26 00:05:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.27.4/include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h 2008-10-26 11:06:14.000000000 +0100
> @@ -74,15 +74,13 @@
> /* Make sure we keep the same behaviour */
> static inline int dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> - return 0;
> -#else
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> struct dma_mapping_ops *ops = get_dma_ops(dev);
> if (ops->mapping_error)
> return ops->mapping_error(dev, dma_addr);
>
> - return (dma_addr == bad_dma_address);
> #endif
> + return (dma_addr == bad_dma_address);
> }
>
> #define dma_alloc_noncoherent(d, s, h, f) dma_alloc_coherent(d, s, h, f)
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