[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: ATI radeon fails with "iommu=soft swiotlb=force" (seen on RV730/RV740 and RS780/RS800)
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:41:04AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk >> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:32:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> >>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 02.10.09 20:42 >>> >> >> >On 10/02/09 10:23, Boris Derzhavets wrote: >> >> >> Jeremy, >> >> >> Please, be aware of bugzilla.xensource.com [1519] the most recent >> >> >> entries :- >> >> >> >> >> >> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1519 >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >Ah, OK. I pushed a variant of Konrad's patches. Could you try them out? >> >> >> >> Are you really convinced fixing this in DRM is the right thing to do? To >> >> me, the use of vmalloc_32() in drivers/ieee1394/ seems to make similar >> >> assumptions (pci_map_sg() not modifying the buffer addresses), and >> >> who knows where else such assumptions exist. After all, vmalloc_32() >> >> is *defined* to have the property assumed by both of the users, and >> >> other than for most kmalloc() cases using GFP_DMA{,32} we're talking >> >> about double buffering generally large amounts of data here even in >> >> the cases where the DMA API is being used properly. >> > >> > I was chatting with Jeremy about this, and I realized that in some >> > sense the radeon driver assumes that physical != bus addresses. Which is >> > OK on x86, but if this card was ever moved to a Sun box it would fail. >> > >> >> FWIW, the radeon drm has been working fine on both sparc and ppc for years. > > Thank you for keeping me honest! > > I thought that the IOMMU on those boxes would return physical != bus > addresses? > Maybe those days are long gone? > Not sure off hand. I'm not particularly familiar with either arch. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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