linux-kernel - Re: Report in downstream Debian: mpt3sas broken with xen dom0 with update to 5.10.149 in 5.10.y.

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 10:32:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        "jejb@...ux.ibm.com" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>,
        "sathya.prakash@...adcom.com" <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        "suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com" 
        <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com" <MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        "adi@...egisch.at" <adi@...egisch.at>
Subject: Re: Report in downstream Debian: mpt3sas broken with xen dom0 with
 update to 5.10.149 in 5.10.y.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 05:28:05PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> I don't know exactly how this translates to Linux internals, but most
> devices are fine and it's routinely the mpt2/3sas drivers which
> encounter problems.  It would be lovely if we could get to the bottom of
> this for once and for all.

So to summarize my two mails:  I think te use of dma_get_required_mask
in mpt3sas is wrong, and the dma_get_required_mask return value from
xen-swiotlb is also wrong.  Fixing either one should fix this problem,
and I think we should fix both.