Re: [PATCH] PCI: apple: Add depends on PAGE_SIZE_16KB

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Feb 11 2025 - 13:39:08 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote:
> From: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The iommu on Apple's M1 and M2 supports only a page size of 16kB and is
> mandatory for PCIe devices. Mismatched page sizes will render devices
> useless due to non-working DMA. While the iommu prints a warning in this
> scenario, it seems a common and hard to debug problem, so prevent it at
> build-time.

Can we include a sample iommu warning here to help people debug this
problem?

> Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig b/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig
> index 9800b768105402d6dd1ba4b134c2ec23da6e4201..507e6ac5d65257578e4eec74b459f6605c9c2907 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/Kconfig
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ config PCIE_APPLE
> depends on ARCH_APPLE || COMPILE_TEST
> depends on OF
> depends on PCI_MSI
> + depends on PAGE_SIZE_16KB || COMPILE_TEST
> select PCI_HOST_COMMON
> help
> Say Y here if you want to enable PCIe controller support on Apple
>
> ---
> base-commit: 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b
> change-id: 20250211-pci-16k-4c391a5dcd18
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>