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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: x86_64, audio: Fix system panic when DMA > 40 bits
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 12:20:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5182AE68.9010905@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518205A9.1050409@canonical.com>

On 05/02/2013 12:20 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 09:04 PM, Mike Travis wrote:
>> The audio driver mistakenly allows 64 bit addresses to be created for
>> the audio driver on Nvidia GPUs.  Unfortunately, the hardware normally
>> only supports up to 40 bits of DMA.  This can cause system panics as
>> well as misdirected data when the address is > 40 bits as the upper
>> part the address is truncated.
> 
> Thanks for this patch. Stephen Warren, is this something you can
> confirm/deny, and do you know what range of hardware this actually
> applies to?

It's certainly plausible that the GPU's internal physical addresses are
less than a full 64-bits, and this probably affects PCI accesses too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-01 19:04 [PATCH]: x86_64, audio: Fix system panic when DMA > 40 bits Mike Travis
2013-05-02  6:20 ` David Henningsson
2013-05-02  6:36   ` Mike Travis
2013-05-02  8:29     ` David Henningsson
2013-05-02 16:19       ` Mike Travis
2013-05-03  9:55     ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-02 18:20   ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-05-02 18:59     ` Mike Travis

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