linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] s390/ism: Set DMA coherent mask

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Message-ID: <12fb284e-8669-7761-60e6-91dbc66d5d9a@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:09:29 -0500
From:   Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com,
        hca@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com,
        gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com,
        svens@...ux.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Julian Ruess <julianr@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] s390/ism: Set DMA coherent mask

On 1/4/23 7:05 AM, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> A future change will convert the DMA API implementation from the
> architecture specific arch/s390/pci/pci_dma.c to using the common code
> drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c which the utilizes the same IOMMU hardware
> through the s390-iommu driver. Unlike the s390 specific DMA API this
> requires devices to correctly call set the coherent mask to be allowed
> to use IOVAs >2^32 in dma_alloc_coherent(). This was however not done
> for ISM devices. ISM requires such addresses since currently the DMA
> aperture for PCI devices starts at 2^32 and all calls to
> dma_alloc_coherent() would thus fail.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>