[PATCH] x86: enable swiotlb for > 4GiG ram on 32-bit kernels

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Oct 14 2018 - 03:52:41 EST


We already build the swiotlb code for 32b-t kernels with PAE support,
but the code to actually use swiotlb has only been enabled for 64-bit
kernel for an unknown reason.

Before Linux 4.18 we papers over this fact because the networking code,
the scsi layer and some random block drivers implenented their own
bounce buffering scheme.

Fixes: 21e07dba ("scsi: reduce use of block bounce buffers")
Fixes: ab74cfeb ("net: remove the PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS check in illegal_highdma")
Reported-by: tedheadster <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: tedheadster <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
index 661583662430..71c0b01d93b1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
@@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ IOMMU_INIT_FINISH(pci_swiotlb_detect_override,
int __init pci_swiotlb_detect_4gb(void)
{
/* don't initialize swiotlb if iommu=off (no_iommu=1) */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (!no_iommu && max_possible_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN)
swiotlb = 1;
-#endif

/*
* If SME is active then swiotlb will be set to 1 so that bounce
--
2.19.1