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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu•citrix.com>
To: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab•ntt.co.jp>,
	"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop•org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:01:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242932497.25553.230.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6DAA792-9923-4B76-9759-6955AABE3EAB@kernel.crashing.org>

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:27 -0400, Becky Bruce wrote:
> We have both in every case but one,  
> which is in swiotlb_map_page where we call address_needs_mapping()  
> without calling range_needs_mapping.

The reason it calls address_needs_mapping without range_needs_mapping is
that in the swiotlb_force=1 case it would trigger every time. If
address_needs_mapping and range_needs_mapping are merged as proposed and
they do not subsume the swiotlb_force check (and I don't think they
would) then I think this will work fine.

> It's not actually clear to me that we need that check, though.  Can 
> someone explain what case that was designed to catch?

If map_single fails and returns NULL then we try to use
io_tlb_overflow_buffer, if that is somehow not DMA-able (for the
particular device) then the check will trigger. I would have thought we
could arrange that the overflow buffer is always OK and really if
map_page is failing we must be close the edge already.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 22:42 [PATCH V2 1/3] powerpc: Use sg->dma_length in sg_dma_len() macro on 32-bit Becky Bruce
2009-05-14 22:42 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb " Becky Bruce
2009-05-14 22:42   ` [PATCH V2 3/3] powerpc: Add 86xx support for SWIOTLB Becky Bruce
2009-05-15  4:49   ` [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit Kumar Gala
2009-05-18  4:49   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-18 13:25     ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-18 21:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-19 13:04         ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-19 20:06           ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-28  4:42           ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-28  6:11             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-28 13:06               ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-19  5:27   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-19 20:57     ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-21 17:43       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-21 18:27         ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-21 19:01           ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2009-05-22 10:51             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-21 20:18           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-21 22:08             ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-22 10:51             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-27 19:05               ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-22 11:11           ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-22 23:55             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-23 22:59               ` Leon Woestenberg
2009-05-26 12:51               ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-27 19:11                 ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-27 19:05             ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-27 20:29               ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-27 22:11                 ` Becky Bruce

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