[PATCH 14/15] ppc64 iommu: use coherent_dma_mask for alloc_coherent
Nishanth Aravamudan
nacc at us.ibm.com
Wed Dec 1 11:31:50 EST 2010
On 29.11.2010 [11:58:16 +1100], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:05 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > The IOMMU code has been passing the dma-mask instead of the
> > coherent_dma_mask to the iommu allocator. Coherent allocations should
> > be made using the coherent_dma_mask.
>
> Won't that break macio devices too ? afaik, they don't set
> coherent_dma_mask. Have you tried booting on a G5 with iommu enabled ?
>
> (It may not be broken, just asking...)
I have not tried this. I unfortunately do not have immediate access to a
G5 to test on, but will ask around.
Thanks,
Nish
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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at us.ibm.com>
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