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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] habanalabs: enable 64-bit DMA mask in POWER9
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:12:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611151247.GA3110@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190611055045.15945-9-oded.gabbay@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 08:50:45AM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> 2. The pci_set_dma_mask() is a generic Linux kernel call, so the driver
>    can't tell why it got an error when it tried to set the DMA mask to 48
>    bits. And upon such failure, the driver must fall-back to set the mask
>    to 32 bits.

In the current kernel pci_set_dma_mask only fails if the DMA mask is
to small to be supportable at all.  So you very obviously did not
actually test this against mainline.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-11  5:50 [PATCH 0/8] Fixing DMA mask issues in habanalabs driver Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 1/8] habanalabs: initialize device CPU queues after MMU init Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 2/8] habanalabs: de-couple MMU and VM module initialization Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 3/8] habanalabs: initialize MMU context for driver Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 4/8] habanalabs: add MMU mappings for Goya CPU Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 5/8] habanalabs: set Goya CPU to use ASIC MMU Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 6/8] habanalabs: remove DMA mask hack for Goya Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 7/8] habanalabs: add WARN in case of bad MMU mapping Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  5:50 ` [PATCH 8/8] habanalabs: enable 64-bit DMA mask in POWER9 Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  7:59   ` Greg KH
2019-06-11  8:08     ` Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11  8:47       ` Oded Gabbay
2019-06-11 15:12   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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