use generic DMA mapping code in powerpc V4

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Wed Feb 13 06:31:56 AEDT 2019


On 12 February 2019 at 4:25PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:42:56PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> On 11 February 2019 at 08:38AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:00:20PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>> I tested the whole series today. The kernels boot and the P.A. Semi
>>>> Ethernet works! :-) Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> I also tested it in a virtual e5500 QEMU machine today. Unfortunately the
>>>> kernel crashes.
>>> This looks like a patch I fixed in mainline a while ago, but which
>>> the powerpc tree didn't have yet.
>>>
>>> I've cherry picked this commit
>>> ("swiotlb: clear io_tlb_start and io_tlb_end in swiotlb_exit")
>>>
>>> and added it to the powerpc-dma.6 tree, please retry with that one.
>>>
>> Hello Christoph,
>>
>> Have you added it to the powerpc-dma.6 tree yet? The last commit was 4 days
>> ago.
> I added it, but forgot to push it out.  It is there now, sorry:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/commitdiff/2cf0745b7420af4a3e871d5a970a45662dfae69c
>
Hi Christoph

Many thanks! Your Git kernel works in a virtual e5500 machine now! :-)

I think we have reached the end of testing! All things are working with 
your DMA updates.

I am looking forward to test your DMA changes in the next merge window 
again. :-)

Cheers
Christian



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