On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 1:08:29 PM CEST Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:53:46PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > static int __init arm64_dma_init(void)
> > {
> > + if (swiotlb_force || max_pfn > (arm64_dma_phys_limit >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> > + swiotlb = 1;
> > +
> > return atomic_pool_init();
> > }
>
> So any platform with RAM larger than 4GB would still initialise swiotlb.
> I wouldn't say it's an issue, 64MB is not a significant loss on such
> systems.
>
> An alternative would be to defer the freeing until we are aware of all
> possible dma masks for the populated devices (e.g. from DT), though I'm
> not sure that's enough, drivers may try to change such masks when
> probed.
Right, this is a hard problem, because you can in theory have odd devices
that require a DMA mask lower than the limit of ZONE_DMA.
In the kernel sources, I find these:
# git grep DMA_BIT_MASK | grep -v 'DMA_BIT_MASK(\(3[2-9]\|[456][0-9]\))'
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/common.c: dev->coherent_dma_mask =
DMA_BIT_MASK(28); /* 64 MB */
drivers/base/isa.c: isa_dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask =
DMA_BIT_MASK(24);
drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.c: err =
dma_set_coherent_mask(&vip->pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(29));
drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(26))) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: mapping + RX_PKT_BUF_SZ >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: mapping + RX_PKT_BUF_SZ >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: if
(dma_mapping_error(bp->sdev->dma_dev, mapping) || mapping + len >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: if
(dma_mapping_error(bp->sdev->dma_dev, mapping) || mapping + len >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: rx_ring_dma + size >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: tx_ring_dma + size >
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) {
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c: if
(dma_set_mask_and_coherent(sdev->dma_dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(30))) {
drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c: if (pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(pdev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) ||
drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c: pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(28))) {
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c: return DMA_BIT_MASK(30);
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c: if (dmamask == DMA_BIT_MASK(30))
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c: mask =
DMA_BIT_MASK(30);
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/dma.c: return DMA_BIT_MASK(30);
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/dma.c: if (dmamask == DMA_BIT_MASK(30))
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/dma.c: mask =
DMA_BIT_MASK(30);
drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: ret = dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(dev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(24));
drivers/pnp/card.c: card->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(24);
drivers/pnp/core.c: dev->dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(24);
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c: if (((retval =
pci_set_dma_mask(aac->pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(31)))) ||
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c: ((retval =
pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(aac->pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(31)))))
drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c: dmamask = DMA_BIT_MASK(31);
drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c:
DMA_BIT_MASK(31)) < 0)
include/linux/blkdev.h:#define BLK_BOUNCE_ISA (DMA_BIT_MASK(24))
sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(31)) <
0 ||
sound/pci/als300.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/als4000.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(24)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/azt3328.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(24)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1x.c: if (pci_set_dma_mask(pci, DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) < 0
||
sound/pci/es1938.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(24)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/es1968.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) <
0 ||
sound/pci/maestro3.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(28)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/sis7019.c: rc = dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(30));
sound/pci/sonicvibes.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(24)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/trident/trident_main.c: if (dma_set_mask(&pci->dev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) < 0 ||
sound/pci/trident/trident_main.c: dma_set_coherent_mask(&pci->dev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(30)) < 0) {
sound/soc/intel/common/sst-firmware.c: err = dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(dev,
DMA_BIT_MASK(31));
sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-dsp.c: ret =
dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(31));
Arnd
