Re: ARM: 2.6.3[45] PCI regression (IXP4xx and PXA?)

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:02:46 +0200
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Lots of drivers call dma_set_coherent_mask with 64bit mask and then
> > call it with 32bit mask if 64bit mask fails.
> 
> Which seems strange to me. If the driver asks for 64-bit mask and the
> system can only give it 32-bits, why return an error? Every 32-bit
> address is also 64-bit, with the most significant bits simply cleared.

As I wrote, the DMA API simply wasn't designed in that way (let
architectures to clip the mask), I guess.

If it was, dma_set_coherent_mask might return the actual mask.
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