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

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Message-ID: <e950a8e0-5ad2-b4e7-196a-065dbf33f2c3@chelsio.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:07:36 +0530
From:   Harsh Jain <Harsh@...lsio.com>
To:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc:     Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "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>,
        "dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Michael Werner <werner@...lsio.com>, "nd@....com" <nd@....com>
Subject: Re: DMA error when sg->offset value is greater than PAGE_SIZE in
 Intel IOMMU


On 28-09-2017 18:35, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> Thanks for trying that Harsh. 
>
> sp_off turns of super page support. Which this mode, do you still see offsets greater than 4k?
Yes, offset greater than 4k is still there. Refer below.
[56732.774872] offset 4110 len 76 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 76
[56732.804187] offset 4110 len 84 dma addr 3a63b200e dma len 84
[56732.805104] offset 4110 len 68 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 68
[56732.806870] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.808987] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.811215] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.813155] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.814823] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.816481] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.818159] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.819712] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[56732.821629] offset 4110 len 56 dma addr 3a531200e dma len 56
[root@...tagon linux_t4_build]#
[root@...tagon linux_t4_build]#
[root@...tagon linux_t4_build]# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.9.51 root=UUID=ccbb7f18-b3f0-43df-89de-07521e9c02fe ro intel_iommu=sp_off crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet rhgb quiet console=ttyS0,115200, console=tty0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:08:21PM +0530, Harsh Jain wrote:
>>
>> Today I tried with "Intel_iommu=sp_off" boot option. Traffic runs without any error for more than 1 hrs. What magic this option did? :)
> Cheers,
> Ashok