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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <shemminger@vyatta.com>, <davej@redhat.com>,
	<tglx@linuxtronix.de>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <hpa@zytor.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 487894] New: sky2 0000:06:00.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with different size
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:18:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090402111839.GE21083@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090402200634I.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:06:26PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:54:15 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:02:45AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > 
> > > The sky2 driver uses pci_unmap_len and pci_unmap_len_set which on 32 bit
> > > platforms are meaningless so they are stubbed out. 
> > > Basically, DMA-API checks are wrong/bogus to enforce on 32bit x86 as is.
> > 
> > As far as I know the VT-d driver is available on 32 bit x86 too. So this should
> > not always be a nop.
> 
> VT-d is available on only x86_64.

At least there was a patch to enable it on 32 bit too. See

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2009-February/001080.html

It seems not to be upstream yet.

	Joerg

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090401172708.GA11941@redhat.com>
2009-04-01 18:02 ` [Bug 487894] New: sky2 0000:06:00.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with different size Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-02 10:54   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-04-02 11:06     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-04-02 11:18       ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2009-04-02 14:03         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-04-02 14:31           ` Joerg Roedel
2009-04-02 15:08             ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-02 15:29               ` Joerg Roedel

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