From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932506Ab2IDQvE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:51:04 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:33271 "EHLO acsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244Ab2IDQvB (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:51:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:40:28 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: David Vrabel Cc: Stefano Panella , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/1] XEN: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent. Message-ID: <20120904164028.GJ23361@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1346407072-6405-1-git-send-email-stefano.panella@citrix.com> <5040B249.4000306@citrix.com> <20120831164010.GA18929@localhost.localdomain> <50460B2E.3020200@citrix.com> <20120904143731.GC23361@phenom.dumpdata.com> <50461654.5040901@citrix.com> <50461A59.2050504@citrix.com> <50462FFE.7070100@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50462FFE.7070100@citrix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:44:46PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 04/09/12 16:12, Stefano Panella wrote: > > On 09/04/2012 03:55 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > >> On 04/09/12 15:37, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:07:42PM +0100, Stefano Panella wrote: > >>>> So if hwdev->coherent_dma_mask is set to 0xffffffffffffffff our > >>>> dma_mask will > >>>> be u64 set to 0xffffffffffffffff even if we set it to > >>>> DMA_BIT_MASK(32) previously. > >>> That is what I was missing. Let me include that in the git commit and > >>> also > >>> put this patch on the stable tree. > >> Note that this appears to be a work around for a bug in the sound system > >> or Intel HDA device driver which is incorrectly truncating a dma_addr_t > >> to a u32. So by ensuring a DMA_BIT_MASK(32) when the dma_addr_t is > >> truncated it still works. > >> > >> David > > Sorry David, I am not completely sure I understand your argument in > > favour of a bug in the > > sound system or Intel HDA device driver. Could you please elaborate more > > in detail about this? > > The HDA driver claims to support 64-bit DMA addresses, so it should be > perfectly fine for the Xen DMA mapping/allocation functions to return > DMA addresses > 4 GiB. For most devices this seems to work just fine. > > I think that somewhere between the buffer being mapped or allocated and > the address being programmed into the hardware, the 64-bit dma_addr_t > value is being truncated to 32 bits giving an invalid DMA address. > > The patch would avoid this by setting the DMA mask to 32-bit and only > returning DMA address < 4 GiB which can quite happily be stuffed into a > u32 without losing bits. > > I think it would be useful (without the patch applied) to print the DMA > addresses returned by the allocate/mapping functions and the address > programmed into the hardware. It will be easily to spot if it got > truncated or not. Just enable DMA debug API (CONFIG_DEBUG_DMA_API) and use this fancy module: /* * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.0 as published by * the Free Software Foundation * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define DUMP_DMA_FUN "0.1" MODULE_AUTHOR("Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk "); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("dump dma"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_VERSION(DUMP_DMA_FUN); static int __init dump_dma_init(void) { debug_dma_dump_mappings(NULL); return 0; } static void __exit dump_dma_exit(void) { } module_init(dump_dma_init); module_exit(dump_dma_exit); > > David