Re: [RFC 3/4] dma-direct: add dma_direct_min_mask

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 05:31:34PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Historically devices with ZONE_DMA32 have been assumed to be able to
> address at least the lower 4GB of ram for DMA. This is still the defualt
> behavior yet the Raspberry Pi 4 is limited to the first GB of memory.
> This has been observed to trigger failures in dma_direct_supported() as
> the 'min_mask' isn't properly set.
> 
> We create 'dma_direct_min_mask' in order for the arch init code to be
> able to fine-tune dma direct's 'min_dma' mask.

Normally we use ZONE_DMA for that case.