Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: select ZONE_DMA

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:44:31AM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> 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

Actually, arm64_dma_phys_limit would be zero-initialised. The
ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT becomes ~0UL, hence it covers the whole address
space.

> > 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 think that's the case, swiotlb is not within the low 32-bit of the
address space.

> 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)

Does this limit need to be inclusive?

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Catalin