This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-ensure-that-swiotlb-buffer-is-allocated-from.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit adb582a0248a97cc880ee1eb857f605b74f44201 Author: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 4 14:35:24 2019 +0200 powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory [ Upstream commit 8fabc623238e68b3ac63c0dd1657bf86c1fa33af ] Some powerpc platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below 4G. If a system has more physical memory than this limit, the swiotlb buffer is not addressable because it is allocated from memblock using top-down mode. Force memblock to bottom-up mode before calling swiotlb_init() to ensure that the swiotlb buffer is DMA-able. Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204123524.22919-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c index 1e93dbc88e80..34f70d36b16d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c @@ -345,6 +345,14 @@ void __init mem_init(void) BUILD_BUG_ON(MMU_PAGE_COUNT > 16); #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB + /* + * Some platforms (e.g. 85xx) limit DMA-able memory way below + * 4G. We force memblock to bottom-up mode to ensure that the + * memory allocated in swiotlb_init() is DMA-able. + * As it's the last memblock allocation, no need to reset it + * back to to-down. + */ + memblock_set_bottom_up(true); swiotlb_init(0); #endif