From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:05:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140118170509.1181a887@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118163315.2757ce26@stein>
On Jan 18 Stefan Richter wrote:
> This makes all of a machine's memory accessible to remote debugging via
> FireWire, using the physical response unit (i.e. RDMA) of OHCI-1394 link
> layer controllers.
>
> This requires actual support by the controller. The only ones currently
> known to support it are Agere/LSI FW643. Most if not all other OHCI-1394
> controllers do not implement the optional Physical Upper Bound register.
> With them, RDMA will continue to be limited to the lowermost 4 GB.
[...]
PS,
this patch does not switch remote DMA on.
It only increases the range of remote access to all memory (instead of just
4 GB) _when_ remote DMA was switched on by other means. The latter is
achieved by setting CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA, or by a module
parameter introduced by commit 8bc588e0e585 of linux1394.git, or if the
physical DMA filter is opened through firewire-sbp2.
--
Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 15:33 [PATCH] firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB Stefan Richter
2014-01-18 16:05 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2014-01-18 16:32 ` [PATCH v2] " Stefan Richter
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