[BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 12 13:32:49 AEST 2019
On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 20:52 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 6/11/19 5:46 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 17:20 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > > b43-pci-bridge 0001:11:00.0: dma_direct_supported: failed (mask =
> > > 0x3fffffff,
> > > min_mask = 0x5ffff000/0x5ffff000, dma bits = 0x1f
> >
> > Ugh ? A mask with holes in it ? That's very wrong... That min_mask is
> > bogus.
>
> I agree, but that is not likely serious as most systems will have enough memory
> that the max_pfn term will be much larger than the initial min_mask, and
> min_mask will be unchanged by the min function.
Well no... it's too much memory that is the problem. If min_mask is
bogus though it will cause problem later too, so one should look into
it.
> In addition, min_mask is not
> used beyond this routine, and then only to decide if direct dma is supported.
> The following patch generates masks with no holes, but I cannot see that it is
> needed.
The right fix is to round up max_pfn to a power of 2, something like
min_mask = min_t(u64, min_mask, (roundup_pow_of_two(max_pfn - 1)) <<
PAGE_SHIFT)
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> index 2c2772e9702a..e3edd4f29e80 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> @@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ int dma_direct_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
> else
> min_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>
> - min_mask = min_t(u64, min_mask, (max_pfn - 1) << PAGE_SHIFT);
> + min_mask = min_t(u64, min_mask, ((max_pfn - 1) << PAGE_SHIFT) |
> + DMA_BIT_MASK(PAGE_SHIFT));
>
> /*
> * This check needs to be against the actual bit mask value, so
>
>
> Larry
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