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Date:	Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:45:42 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@....org>
To:	ink@...assic.park.msu.ru
Cc:	tomof@....org, rct@...s.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [regression]2.6.25-rc4: boot panic on alpha

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:21:16 +0300
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:56:40PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > Very sorry, I probably broke the IOMMU. I don't have the hardware so
> > I've not tested the patches.
> 
> Unfortunately, I was not able to test these patches either, as my
> alpha with iommmu and scsi is disassembled at the moment, thanks to
> dead CPU fan...
> 
> > -	BUG_ON(arena->dma_base & ~PAGE_MASK);
> > +	if (arena->dma_base & ~PAGE_MASK)
> > +		printk("%s %d: %lx\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, arena->dma_base);
> 
> arena->dma_base is always properly aligned - it's pretty fundamental thing.

Thanks, I see.


> >  	base = arena->dma_base >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >  	if (dev)
> >  		boundary_size = ALIGN(dma_get_max_seg_size(dev) + 1, PAGE_SIZE)
> 				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Must be dma_get_seg_boundary(dev). Hopefully it's the only typo ;-)

Ah, a stupid typo...


> > @@ -152,7 +155,8 @@ iommu_arena_find_pages(struct device *dev, struct pci_iommu_arena *arena,
> >  	else
> >  		boundary_size = ALIGN(1UL << 32, PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
> A bit of abuse of ALIGN() macro, to my taste ;-)
> 
> > -	BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(boundary_size));
> > +	if (!is_power_of_2(boundary_size))
> > +		printk("%s %d: %lx\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, boundary_size);
> 
> Perhaps it was that, if the scsi driver set max_seg_size to something
> other than default 65536 (and not a power of two)...

Yeah, probably (and hopefully) it was.


> Bob, can you give it a try?
> 
> Ivan.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> index be6fa10..e07a23f 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> @@ -144,15 +144,14 @@ iommu_arena_find_pages(struct device *dev, struct pci_iommu_arena *arena,
>  	unsigned long base;
>  	unsigned long boundary_size;
>  
> -	BUG_ON(arena->dma_base & ~PAGE_MASK);
>  	base = arena->dma_base >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -	if (dev)
> -		boundary_size = ALIGN(dma_get_max_seg_size(dev) + 1, PAGE_SIZE)
> -			>> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -	else
> -		boundary_size = ALIGN(1UL << 32, PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -
> -	BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(boundary_size));
> +	if (dev) {
> +		boundary_size = dma_get_seg_boundary(dev) + 1;
> +		BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(boundary_size));
> +		boundary_size >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	} else {
> +		boundary_size = 1UL << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT);
> +	}
>  
>  	/* Search forward for the first mask-aligned sequence of N free ptes */
>  	ptes = arena->ptes;

Thanks!
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