[PATCH v2] arm64: do not set dma masks that device connection can't handle
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Jan 10 06:59:14 PST 2017
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:42:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It's a much rarer problem for the IOMMU case though, because it only
> impacts devices that are restricted to addressing of less than 32-bits.
>
> If you have an IOMMU enabled, the dma-mapping interface does not care
> if the device can do wider than 32 bit addressing, as it will never
> hand out IOVAs above 0xffffffff.
That's absolutely not the case. IOMMUs can and do generate addresses
larger than 32-bit. Also various platforms have modes where an IOMMU
can be used when <= 32-bit addresses are used and bypassed if full 64-bit
addressing is supported and I/O isolation is not explicitly requested.
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