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SubjectRe: [PATCH] swiotlb: ensure io_tlb_default_mem spinlock always initialised
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On 11/07/2022 11:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:24:51AM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> On 11/07/2022 11:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:07:17AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>>> If none of your peripherals should need SWIOTLB, then the fact that
>>>> you're ending up in swiotlb_map() at all is a clear sign that
>>>> something's wrong. Most likely someone's forgotten to set their DMA
>>>> masks correctly.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Possibly, we had at least one driver which attempted to set a 32 bit
>> DMA mask which had to be removed as the DMA layer accepts this but
>> since there is no DMA32 memory the allocator then just fails.
>>
>> I expect the above may need to be a separate discussion(s) of how to
>> default the DMA mask and how to stop the implicit acceptance of setting
>> a 32-bit DMA mask.
>
> No. Linux simply assumes you can do 32-bit DMA and this won't
> change. So we'll need to fix your platform to support swiotlb
> eventually.

Ok, is there any examples currently in the kernel that have no memory
in the DMA32 zone that do use swiotlb?

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