Re: [PATCH] usb: ehci: Enable support for 64bit EHCI host controllers in arm64

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On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 16:59 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:21:17AM +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 18:40 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:08:45PM +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:55 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > > It could if arm64 would restrict the DMA addresses to 32-bit, but it doesn't
> > > > > > and I end up on my platform with USB DMA buffers allocated >4GB address.
> > > > > 
> > > > > dma_alloc_coherent() on arm64 should return 32-bit addresses if the
> > > > > coherent_dma_mask is set to 32-bit.
> > > > 
> > > > Not if you have CONFIG_DMA_CMA. Unless I have misread the code, enabling
> > > > CMA means memory comes from a common pool carved out at boot with no way
> > > > for drivers to specify it's restrictions [1]. It's what I've spent most
> > > > of the week trying to work around in a clean way, and have finally given
> > > > up.
> > > 
> > > The easiest "hack" would be to pass a limit dma_contiguous_reserve()
> > > in arm64_memblock_init(), something like this:
> > 
> > That is by far the easiest but I dismissed it because it affects all
> > platforms built from that source tree; and if the hack were extended to
> > include a kernel config option, that still may not work on a single
> > kernel binary expected to work on multiple platforms. Basically, I've
> > tried various was to do it 'properly' and after failing am resorting to
> > truly hideous hacks to the (out-of-tree driver) code - so at least other
> > platforms won't be impacted.
> 
> Can you set a specific reserved memory region in the DT to be used by
> CMA (via linux,cma-default), or it's just for the default size?

The bindings and infrastructure got half merged in 3.15 but the patches
to actually make this usable in drivers are stalled...
http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/14/201

> On arm64 we enabled CONFIG_DMA_CMA by default but compared to swiotlb it
> doesn't honour GFP_DMA. The arm32 port sets the CMA limit to
> arm_dma_limit which is 32-bit or a SoC-define one. So I'm tempted to
> default to 32-bit as well if it can be overridden via DT.

I believe the CMA pool could have been over-ridden if the stalled
patches been accepted. I believe the specific patch for that is
http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/28/278

The bindings for all this CMA stuf is in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt

-- 
Tixy

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