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

Hanjun Guo hanjun.guo at linaro.org
Thu Feb 2 19:37:04 PST 2017


On 02/03/2017 03:01 AM, Nate Watterson wrote:
> 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.

OK, great, I tested this patch with platform USB device which was
working fine on Hisilicon D03, so I didn't miss anything here.

Thanks
Hanjun




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