[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 18/38] powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Sat Dec 28 05:14:15 AEDT 2019


From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit 8fabc623238e68b3ac63c0dd1657bf86c1fa33af ]

Some powerpc platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below 4G.
If a system has more physical memory than this limit, the swiotlb
buffer is not addressable because it is allocated from memblock using
top-down mode.

Force memblock to bottom-up mode before calling swiotlb_init() to
ensure that the swiotlb buffer is DMA-able.

Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204123524.22919-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 1e93dbc88e80..34f70d36b16d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -345,6 +345,14 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(MMU_PAGE_COUNT > 16);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
+	/*
+	 * Some platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below
+	 * 4G. We force memblock to bottom-up mode to ensure that the
+	 * memory allocated in swiotlb_init() is DMA-able.
+	 * As it's the last memblock allocation, no need to reset it
+	 * back to to-down.
+	 */
+	memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
 	swiotlb_init(0);
 #endif
 
-- 
2.20.1



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