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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:28:09 -0500
From:	Becky Bruce <beckyb@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	albert_herranz@...oo.es, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] swiotlb: add swiotlb_set_default_size()


On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:08 AM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:58:41 +0100
> Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es> wrote:
>
>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:12:40 +0100
>>> Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The current SWIOTLB code uses a default of 64MB for the IO TLB  
>>>> area.
>>>> This size can be influenced using a kernel command line parameter  
>>>> "swiotlb".
>>>> Unfortunately, the parsing of the kernel command line is done  
>>>> _after_ the
>>>> swiotlb is initialized on some architectures.
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds a new function swiotlb_set_default_size() which  
>>>> can be used
>>>> before swiotlb_init() to indicate the desired IO TLB area size in  
>>>> bytes.
>>>>
>>>> This will be used later to implement a smaller IO TLB on the  
>>>> Nintendo Wii
>>>> video game console which just comes with 24MB + 64MB of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> CC: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
>>>> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>>> CC: x86@...nel.org
>>>> CC: linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es>
>>>> ---
>>>> include/linux/swiotlb.h |    2 ++
>>>> lib/swiotlb.c           |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Please fix the powerpc swiotlb initialization instead.
>>>
>>> Calling swiotlb_init() before parsing kernel parameters sounds
>>> wrong. Any reasons why you can't fix it?
>>>
>>
>> I think that this would be better asked by a PowerPC maintainer. Ben?
>>
>> If this is really a problem the swiotlb late init may be a solution  
>> too in this particular case.
>
> Hmm, why swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size()?
>
> Why can't you initialize swiotlb in mem_init() like this (only compile
> tested)? Any time before freeing bootmem works for swiotlb.

This is an oops in the original patchset -  I think it should be fine  
to move the swiotlb_init later as Fujita suggests, at least for 32-bit  
powerpc.  I just booted this on mpc8641 and everything seems OK.

-Becky

>
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ 
> setup_32.c
> index b152de3..8f58986 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
> #include <asm/serial.h>
> #include <asm/udbg.h>
> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> -#include <asm/swiotlb.h>
>
> #include "setup.h"
>
> @@ -343,11 +342,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> 		ppc_md.setup_arch();
> 	if ( ppc_md.progress ) ppc_md.progress("arch: exit", 0x3eab);
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
> -	if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
> -		swiotlb_init(1);
> -#endif
> -
> 	paging_init();
>
> 	/* Initialize the MMU context management stuff */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ 
> setup_64.c
> index 6354739..9143891 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
> #include <asm/xmon.h>
> #include <asm/udbg.h>
> #include <asm/kexec.h>
> -#include <asm/swiotlb.h>
> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>
> #include "setup.h"
> @@ -541,11 +540,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> 	if (ppc_md.setup_arch)
> 		ppc_md.setup_arch();
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
> -	if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
> -		swiotlb_init(1);
> -#endif
> -
> 	paging_init();
>
> 	/* Initialize the MMU context management stuff */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> index 311224c..448f972 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
> #include <asm/sparsemem.h>
> #include <asm/vdso.h>
> #include <asm/fixmap.h>
> +#include <asm/swiotlb.h>
>
> #include "mmu_decl.h"
>
> @@ -320,6 +321,11 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> 	struct page *page;
> 	unsigned long reservedpages = 0, codesize, initsize, datasize,  
> bsssize;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
> +	if (ppc_swiotlb_enable)
> +		swiotlb_init(1);
> +#endif
> +
> 	num_physpages = lmb.memory.size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
>
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