linux-kernel - Re: DMA error when sg->offset value is greater than PAGE

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Message-ID: <20170925155430.GB131920@otc-nc-03>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:54:30 -0700
From:   "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
To:     Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Harsh Jain <Harsh@...lsio.com>,
        David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: DMA error when sg->offset value is greater than PAGE_SIZE in
 Intel IOMMU

Hi Casey

Sorry, somehow didn't see this one come by.


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:46:40PM +0000, Casey Leedom wrote:
> | From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> | Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:12 AM
> |
> | On 20/09/17 09:01, Herbert Xu wrote:
> | >
> | > Harsh Jain <Harsh@...lsio.com> wrote:
> | >>
> | >> While debugging DMA mapping error in chelsio crypto driver we
> | >> observed that when scatter/gather list received by driver has
> | >> some entry with page->offset > 4096 (PAGE_SIZE). It starts
> | >> giving DMA error.  Without IOMMU it works fine.

Not sure how the page->offset would end up being greater than page-size?

If you have additional traces, please send them by. 

Is this a new driver? wondering how we didn't run into this?


Cheers,
Ashok