[PATCH V7 08/11] drivers: acpi: Handle IOMMU lookup failure with deferred probing or error

Sricharan sricharan at codeaurora.org
Thu Feb 2 19:37:07 PST 2017


Hi,

>On 2017-02-01 13:52, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>>
>> I debugged the issue and Nate's fix is correct, the fact that you
>> can't it hit it with mainline is just a matter of timing because it has
>> to do with the CTX pointer value (we OR it with the existing value), so
>> it may work or not depending on how the cdptr memory allocation
>> pattern turns out to be (which explains why Nate and I can hit it with
>> simple PCI device remove/add execution too).
>>
>> So it is neither an ACPI nor an IOMMU probe deferral issue per-se,
>> fix is already queued, so it is all good.
>>
>> What about USB stalls ?
>Our fault. The USB controller was getting 48-bit IOVAs, but the
>bus it sits on only supports 44-bits so the controller's DMA
>transactions ended up targeting addresses that were never mapped.
>
>It started working once I applied the iort/dma-mapping patches I
>sent out earlier this week that use the iort memory_address_limit
>field to check if a dma_mask is sane.
>
>Sorry for the false alarm.

Ok, thanks for closing on it. I will just post V8 with all acks picked up and
Robin's fix , right away.

Regards,
 Sricharan




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