On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:37:00AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2013, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > We do allocate memory using DMA pools, and we do want 64-bit context
> > addresses if the xHCI host controller can handle it.
> >
> > The xHCI driver calls dma_set_mask, but not dma_set_coherent_mask():
> >
> > temp = xhci_readl(xhci, &xhci->cap_regs->hcc_params);
> > if (HCC_64BIT_ADDR(temp)) {
> > xhci_dbg(xhci, "Enabling 64-bit DMA addresses.\n");
> > dma_set_mask(hcd->self.controller, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
> > } else {
> > dma_set_mask(hcd->self.controller, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
> > }
> >
> > Alan, should it be calling dma_set_coherent_mask()? I think I may have
> > noticed the context addresses were never 64-bit addresses, but I didn't
> > think to look whether the host supported 64-bit addresses. I just
> > assumed it could only handle 32-bit addresses.
>
> If you're using 64-bit DMA then you almost certainly do want to call
> dma_set_coherent_mask(). On the plus side, it is guaranteed that if
> dma_set_mask() succeeds with a particular mask value then
> dma_set_coherent_mask() for the same mask value will also succeed.
So we need to call both dma_set_coherent_mask() and dma_set_mask()? Or
just dma_set_coherent_mask()?
Ksenia, thanks for catching this! You should send a patch to fix it
once Alan clarifies this.
Sarah Sharp
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