From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx2.suse.de", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9ABDDE1A for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:58:28 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:58:04 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" Message-ID: <20070806115804.GA1734@suse.de> References: <46B4B3DC.7020609@shaw.ca> <46B4B7C6.1040107@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1186272926.938.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <46B5824B.1000103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <46B5824B.1000103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Robert Hancock , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, Aug 05, Stefan Richter wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>> If setting 32-bit DMA mask fails on ppc64, that sounds like a problem > >>> with the DMA implementation on that architecture. There are enough cards > >>> out there that only support 32-bit DMA that this really needs to work.. > >> Yes, could the PPC folks please have a look at it? Thanks. > > > > Smells like we may have a bug there. No worries though, all current PPC > > machines have an iommu that will not give out addresses above 32 bits > > anyway, but I'll double check what's up. > > > > Do you see something in dmesg when that happens ? > > There was nothing in Olaf's report, except for trouble in sbp2 _after_ > the failure. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/344 (I don't have a PMac.) sbp2util_remove_command_orb_pool() does not check for lu->hi being NULL. dev->dma_mask is NULL too, thats why dma_direct_dma_supported() returns false, and dma_set_mask() will return -EIO.