Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: dra7: Add bus_dma_limit for L3 bus

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 11:15:21 EST


* Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> [200313 15:06]:
> On 2020-03-13 9:47 am, Roger Quadros wrote:
> > The L3 interconnect's memory map is from 0x0 to
> > 0xffffffff. Out of this, System memory (SDRAM) can be
> > accessed from 0x80000000 to 0xffffffff (2GB)
> >
> > DRA7 does support 4GB of SDRAM but upper 2GB can only be
> > accessed by the MPU subsystem.
> >
> > Add the dma-ranges property to reflect the physical address limit
> > of the L3 bus.
> >
> > Issues ere observed only with SATA on DRA7-EVM with 4GB RAM
> > and CONFIG_ARM_LPAE enabled. This is because the controller
> > supports 64-bit DMA and its driver sets the dma_mask to 64-bit
> > thus resulting in DMA accesses beyond L3 limit of 2G.
> >
> > Setting the correct bus_dma_limit fixes the issue.
>
> Neat! In principle you should no longer need the specific dma-ranges on the
> PCIe nodes, since AIUI those really only represent a subset of this general
> limitation, but given the other inheritance issue you saw it's probably
> safer to leave them as-is for now.

Also, Roger, I think omap5 needs a similar patch too, right?
At least pyra has omap5 with 4GB and SATA connector.

> FWIW,
>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

Sorry missed that as I just pushed out the fix.

Regards,

Tony