ask for help about swiotlb buffer is full

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Fri Jan 30 19:33:35 PST 2015


On 2015-01-30 18:44, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Kefeng,
> 
> On 30/01/15 10:19, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> +cc linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>>
>> On 2015-01-30 18:08, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>    There is an AHCI compliant SATA controller in our arm64 soc, and it only supports 32bit DMA(used coherent dma_ops).
>>> It works well in v3.16. Recently, we update kernel from linux v3.16 to linux v3.19-rc4(use defconfig in arm64),
>>> but we get errors when test sata driver, as follows.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ahci b1002800.sata: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 65536 bytes)
>>> DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device b1002800.sata
>>> ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
>>> ata6.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT
>>> ata6.00: cmd 35/00:0f:05:0d:00/00:38:00:00:00/e0 tag 7 dma 7347712 out
>>>           res 50/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
>>> ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
>>> ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133
>>> ata6: EH complete
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> It's difficult for us to git bisect, could anyone give us some advise, and idea?
>>>
> 
> If it's not just a case of trying to map bigger buffers than SWIOTLB can bounce, you might be hitting the problem that this patch fixes:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853766

Hi, thanks for the response, tried, errors still exist.

> 
> 
> Robin.
> 
> 
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