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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Subject: Re: powerpc/powernv/pci: Return failure for some uses of
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:40 +1000 (AEST)
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On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 05:26:40 UTC, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Commit 8e3f1b1d8255 ("powerpc/powernv/pci: Enable 64-bit devices to access
> >4GB DMA space") introduced the ability for PCI device drivers to request a
> DMA mask between 64 and 32 bits and actually get a mask greater than
> 32-bits. However currently if certain machine configuration dependent
> conditions are not meet the code silently falls back to a 32-bit mask.
> 
> This makes it hard for device drivers to detect which mask they actually
> got. Instead we should return an error when the request could not be
> fulfilled which allows drivers to either fallback or implement other
> workarounds as documented in DMA-API-HOWTO.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
> Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/253fd51e2f533552ae35a0c661705d

cheers