[PATCH] virtio_mmio: Set DMA masks appropriately

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jan 10 05:15:57 PST 2017


On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 12:26:01 PM CET Robin Murphy wrote:
> @@ -548,6 +550,14 @@ static int virtio_mmio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         if (vm_dev->version == 1)
>                 writel(PAGE_SIZE, vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_GUEST_PAGE_SIZE);
>  
> +       rc = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
> +       if (rc)
> +               rc = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));

You don't seem to do anything different when 64-bit DMA is unsupported.
How do you prevent the use of kernel buffers that are above the first 4G
here?

> +       else if (vm_dev->version == 1)
> +               dma_set_coherent_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32 + PAGE_SHIFT));

Why is this limitation only for the coherent mask?

	Arnd



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