[PATCH v14 06/12] swiotlb: Use is_swiotlb_force_bounce for swiotlb data bouncing

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Jun 24 21:14:39 AEST 2021


On 2021-06-24 07:05, Claire Chang wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:43 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:44:34PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
>>> is_swiotlb_force_bounce at /usr/src/linux-next/./include/linux/swiotlb.h:119
>>>
>>> is_swiotlb_force_bounce() was the new function introduced in this patch here.
>>>
>>> +static inline bool is_swiotlb_force_bounce(struct device *dev)
>>> +{
>>> +     return dev->dma_io_tlb_mem->force_bounce;
>>> +}
>>
>> To me the crash looks like dev->dma_io_tlb_mem is NULL.  Can you
>> turn this into :
>>
>>          return dev->dma_io_tlb_mem && dev->dma_io_tlb_mem->force_bounce;
>>
>> for a quick debug check?
> 
> I just realized that dma_io_tlb_mem might be NULL like Christoph
> pointed out since swiotlb might not get initialized.
> However,  `Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> dfff80000000000e` looks more like the address is garbage rather than
> NULL?
> I wonder if that's because dev->dma_io_tlb_mem is not assigned
> properly (which means device_initialize is not called?).

What also looks odd is that the base "address" 0xdfff800000000000 is 
held in a couple of registers, but the offset 0xe looks too small to 
match up to any relevant structure member in that dereference chain :/

Robin.


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