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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:33:42 +0200
From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To: Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>
Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>, florian@...kler.org,
pedrib@...il.com, William Light <wrl@...est.net>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allocating buffers for USB transfers (again)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 13:53:46 schrieb Daniel Mack:
> Takashi recently posted a patch to the bugzilla entry which uses a
> different approach: it introduces a function to determine suitable GFP
> flags for USB devices, and passes __DMA32 to kmalloc() eventually.
> However, using this flags directly with the SLUB allocator is illegal
> and causes a BUG() in mm/slub.c, cache_grow().
>
> The question now is how to proceed. I see three possible ways.
>
> 1. Find a way to allocate 32bit-aware memory with kmalloc(), following
> Takashi's idea
That is not really a good idea, because many drivers have to deal with buffers
another subsystem has allocated.
> 2. Find out exactly why these machines fail to install bounce buffers
> or set up their IOMMU correctly
This is still the correct approach. Given the cause this cannot be a problem
only for audio. We need the root cause.
> 3. re-activate the currently disabled functions
> usb_buffer_{map,unmap,sync} functions and let the USB stack do the
> memory mapping
The USB stack does call the DMA mapping operations.
Regards
Oliver
PS: Do you still see this if you enable 64bit DMA for EHCI?
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