Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: select ZONE_DMA

[Nicolas Saenz Julienne]

Hi Peng,
sorry for the inconvenience, this is most probably related to these changes:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20201119175400.9995-1-nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx/

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 16:08 +0800, Peng Fan (OSS) wrote:
> From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ZONE_DMA should not be disabled, otherwise arm64_dma_phys_limit is
> left uninitialized and cause swiotlb have IO TLB above 4GB which
> might crash some platforms
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Not sure whether need to address code to initialize the variables or
> force select ZONE_DMA

What is the cause for the swiotlb related crashes? I assume it's DMA into an
address too high for the bus, but it might be something else.

I figure you have a setup with ZONE_DMA32, ZONE_NORMAL and !ZONE_DMA.

First of all, I'd suggest you try arm64's defaults (all zones enabled), the
series I mention above should fix most of the issues we've had with
ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32 in the past. We now parse DT/ACPI and only create two
distinct DMA zones if really needed. Otherwise ZONE_DMA spans the whole 32 bit
address space.

That said, IMO we're not doing the right thing in the !ZONE_DMA && ZONE_DMA32
case, and this should fix it (I didn't test it):

- #define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT	(arm64_dma_phys_limit - 1)
+ #define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT	(arm64_dma_phys_limit ? : arm64_dma32_phys_limit)

Regards,
Nicolas

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