[BUG 5.14] arm64/mm: dma memory mapping fails (in some cases)
Mike Rapoport
rppt at kernel.org
Sat Sep 18 01:37:15 PDT 2021
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:18:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:22:47AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > I did some digging and it seems that the most "generic" way to check if a
> > page is in RAM is page_is_ram(). It's not 100% bullet proof as it'll give
> > false negatives for architectures that do not register "System RAM", but
> > those are not using dma_map_resource() anyway and, apparently, never would.
>
> The downside of page_is_ram is that it looks really expensiv for
> something done at dma mapping time.
Indeed :(
But pfn_valid is plain wrong...
I'll keep digging.
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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