linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: clear the warnings caused by empty dma-ranges

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <6ed78167-44fe-7b6e-e442-adb70b0c0bb5@broadcom.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:45:54 -0800
From:   Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Bharat Gooty <bharat.gooty@...adcom.com>
Cc:     devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: clear the warnings caused by
 empty dma-ranges

Hi Bharat,

On 1/13/2021 8:55 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 1/13/21 12:05 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:42 AM Bharat Gooty <bharat.gooty@...adcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Ray,
>>>
>>> I had cross checked with Design and integration team.
>>> Yes we can set the "dma-rages" to 40 bit DMA ranges. Tested, it is working.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
>>>
>>> Bharat can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we have a bug in
>>> the USB DMA engine that causes it can only address 32-bit. I believe we
>>> can set dma-ranges size to 40-bit here.
>>>
>>> The dma-range property is though required to be specified, instead of
>>> leaving it as empty, with the use of IOMMU. That seems to be a v5.10
>>> specific behavior as I described below.
>>
>> Ok, thanks for double-checking. I had misremembered the version
>> that actually went into the as the one that used 64-bit dma-ranges
>> and thought that was what broke, rather than the version without
>> dma-ranges.
>>
>> If any of you want to send me that bugfix directly, or have Florian
>> pick it up through his fixes branch, I'll make sure we get it into v5.11.
> 
> I have another change for v5.11 that I would like to send, so please do
> send a bugfix when you get a chance and we can lump those two changes
> together, say, by the end of the week?
> 

Would you be able to help to send this out by the end of this week as
Florian advised? Your previous patch with the extension to 40-bit in
size plus a fixes-by tag should do!

Thanks!

Ray


Download attachment "smime.p7s" of type "application/pkcs7-signature" (4151 bytes)