Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Hi,

thanks for publishing this.

> Add the Software NCQ support to sata_nv.c for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 SATA
> controller.
>
> This patch base on sata_nv.c file from kernel 2.6.22-rc1
>
> See attachment for the patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuan Luo <kluo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <pchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ==================================
> See attached file.
> ==================================
>   

However, I saw this in the patch:

+               /* determine if physical DMA addr spans 64K boundary.
+                * Note h/w doesn't support 64-bit, so we unconditionally
+                * truncate dma_addr_t to u32.
+                */
+               addr = (u32) sg_dma_address(sg);

Does it mean that I can't upgrade my machine to 4 GB or more
without losing NCQ or risking data corruption?
Can the code be made IOMMU-aware?

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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