From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:23:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Bug Fix drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c: convert paddr Message-Id: <1249456989.9324.339.camel@macbook.infradead.org> List-Id: References: <200908042017.n74KHsNw018095@bz-web1.app.phx.redhat.com> <20090804221058.GA21448@linux-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20090804221058.GA21448@linux-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fenghua Yu Cc: Tony Luck , iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 15:10 -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > When calling domain_pfn_mapping(), paddr should be converted to DMA pfn > correctly instead just shift by VTD_PAGE_SHIFT. > > This issue causes kernel panic on PAGE_SIZE>VTD_PAGE_SIZE platforms e.g. ia64 > platforms. > > Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Using the word 'alignment' somewhere in the above commit would have confused me a lot less -- I got most of the way through composing a mail asking how this patch wasn't a no-op, before I spotted it. An alternative would be to align the size to DMA pages? Would that make the sg case easier? (Thanks for fixing this, btw) -- dwmw2