Re: AMD Quad core - PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on > 4 GB RAM

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM, FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:15:37 -0700
> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've run into "PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space" messages after loading and
>> unloading a module 30 times. The interesting thing is this only
>> happens if I have > 4 GB of memory. The box this occurs has AMD Phenom
>> quad core CPU so I take it a harware IOMMU is being used. Below are
>> example relevant messages with > 4 GB and then < 4 GB of memory. The
>> driver I tested this with was ath9k. It could be an issue perhaps with
>> ath9k but I am unable to find an issue in our probe/removal.
>>
>> Could this be an issue with the AMD IOMMU used? Or is it more likely a
>> driver issue?
>
> ath9k wants DMA_32BIT_MASK, right? If so, GART IOMMU does nothing on a
> system with < 4GB memory since ath9k can access to all the memory
> addresses directly. With >4GB memory, GART needs to remap an address
> higher than 4GB because ath9k wants DMA_32BIT_MASK.
>
> From a quick look, ath9k doesn't call pci_unmap_single for rx
> buffers. Though I might be wrong because I don't know anything about
> the driver.

You seem to be right actually, we were calling pci_unmap_single() for
rx buffers on the RX tasklet but never for the simple case of removing
the module. Will test it out in a bit.

 Luis
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