Hi all,
I _think_ I found a little snag in the pci_alloc_consistent code for i386.
What I've discovered is that modern GbE drivers (such as the tg3 driver
written by David and the e1000 driver by Intel), does something like this
in setup :
if (!pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, (u64) 0xffffffffffffffff)) {
pci_using_dac = 1;
} else {
err = pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, (u64) 0xffffffff);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No usable DMA configuration, "
"aborting.\n");
goto err_out_free_res;
}
pci_using_dac = 0;
}
if (pci_using_dac)
dev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
On i386 the first pci_set_dma_mask will succeed, because :
(in include/asm-i386/pci.h)
static inline int pci_dma_supported(struct pci_dev *hwdev, u64 mask)
{
/*
* we fall back to GFP_DMA when the mask isn't all 1s,
* so we can't guarantee allocations that must be
* within a tighter range than GFP_DMA..
*/
if(mask < 0x00ffffff)
return 0;
return 1;
}
(in drivers/pci/pci.c)
int
pci_set_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *dev, u64 mask)
{
if (!pci_dma_supported(dev, mask))
return -EIO;
dev->dma_mask = mask;
return 0;
}
And this is just fine, the ethernet adapter will be able to DMA directly
to any memory (even highmem).
However when they are allocating RX and TX descriptors (and thus using
pci_alloc_consistent), they are getting GFP_DMA pages. This is why :
(in arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c)
void *pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *hwdev, size_t size,
dma_addr_t *dma_handle)
{
void *ret;
int gfp = GFP_ATOMIC;
if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff)
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
if (ret != NULL) {
memset(ret, 0, size);
*dma_handle = virt_to_bus(ret);
}
return ret;
}
IMHO the criteria for when to select GFP_DMA pages is wrong, it should be :
if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask < 0xffffffff)
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
Here's a patch :
--- pci-dma.c.~1~ Wed Aug 14 15:06:49 2002
+++ pci-dma.c Wed Aug 14 15:08:29 2002
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
void *ret;
int gfp = GFP_ATOMIC;
- if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff)
+ if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask < 0xffffffff)
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
Regards,
--
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