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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefano Panella <stefano.panella@citrix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/1] XEN: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent.
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:55:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50461654.5040901@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904143731.GC23361@phenom.dumpdata.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31  9:57 [PATCH 1/1] XEN: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent Stefano Panella
2012-08-31 12:47 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-08-31 16:40   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-04 14:07     ` Stefano Panella
2012-09-04 14:37       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-04 14:55         ` David Vrabel [this message]
2012-09-04 15:12           ` Stefano Panella
2012-09-04 16:44             ` David Vrabel
2012-09-04 16:40               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-05 13:13                 ` Stefano Panella
2012-09-05 14:33       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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