DMA mapping on SCSI device?

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We've got a bit of a problem with the sata_nv driver that I'm trying to figure out a decent solution to (hence all the lists CCed). This is the situation:

The nForce4 ADMA hardware has 2 modes: legacy mode, where it acts like a normal ATA controller with 32-bit DMA limits, and ADMA mode where it can access all of 64-bit memory. Each PCI device has 2 SATA ports, and the legacy/ADMA mode can be controlled independently on both of them.

The trick is that if an ATAPI device is connected, we (as far as I'm aware) can't use ADMA mode, so we have to switch that port into legacy mode. This means it's only capable of 32-bit DMA. However the other port on the controller may be connected to a hard drive and therefore still capable of 64-bit DMA. (To make things more complicated, devices can be hotplugged and so this can change dynamically.) Since the device that libata is doing DMA mapping against is attached to the PCI device and not the port, it creates a problem here. If we change the mask on one it affects the other one as well.

The original solution used by the driver was to leave the DMA mask at 64-bit and use blk_queue_bounce_limit to try to force the block layer not to send any requests with DMA addresses over 4GB into the driver. However it seems on x86_64 this doesn't work, since it pushes high addresses through anyway and expects the IOMMU to take care of it (which it doesn't because of the 64-bit mask).

The last solution I tried was to set the DMA mask on both ports to 32-bit on slave_configure when an ATAPI device is connected. However, this runs into complications as well. This is run on initialization and when trying to set the other port into 32-bit DMA, it may not be initialized yet. Plus, it forces the port with a hard drive on it into 32-bit DMA needlessly.

The ideal solution would be to do mapping against a different struct device for each port, so that we could maintain the proper DMA mask for each of them at all times. However I'm not sure if that's possible. The thought of using the SCSI struct device for DMA mapping was brought up at one point.. any thoughts on that?
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