linux-kernel - Re: No dma_sync_* during pci_probe? (Sparc, post 2.6.22 regression)

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Message-ID: <476947C1.2010405@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:33:05 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, krh@...planet.net,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: No dma_sync_* during pci_probe? (Sparc, post 2.6.22 regression)

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:38:27 +0100
> 
>> Also note:
>>   - The very same code did not oops at this point in 2.6.22.  It only
>>     started doing so in 2.6.23.
> 
> 2.6.23 is when the sparc64 IOMMU code started relying upon
> the dev_archdata bits being correct.

And why are the dev_archdata corrupt?
Does arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c fill them in incorrectly or too late?

drivers/firewire/fw_ohci.c needs them for dma_map_single() +
dma_sync_single_for_device() in the pci_driver.probe(), sometime after
it called pci_enable_device(), before finishing the probe.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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