linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] ACPI/IORT: Set bus DMA mask as appropriate

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Message-ID: <20180710180458.GC26285@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:04:58 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc:     hch@....de, m.szyprowski@...sung.com,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, hanjun.guo@...aro.org,
        sudeep.holla@....com, robh+dt@...nel.org, frowand.list@...il.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, joro@...tes.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] ACPI/IORT: Set bus DMA mask as appropriate

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> When an explicit DMA limit is described by firmware, we need to remember
> it regardless of how drivers might subsequently update their devices'
> masks. The new bus_dma_mask field does that.

Shouldn't we also stop presetting the dma mask after this?