netdev - Re: [RFC] skge: limit DMA to 32 bit

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Message-ID: <20100921080253.3d89d60a@nehalam>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:02:53 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] skge: limit DMA to 32 bit

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:15:19 +0200
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> wrote:

> We have old fedora bug report about not working skge device on some
> Gigabyte motherboard:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447489
> 
> In dmesg there are messages:
> 
> skge 0000:02:0b.0: PCI error cmd=0x7 status=0x22b0
> skge 0000:02:0b.0: unable to clear error (so ignoring them)
> 
> Status value 0x22b0 include PCI_STATUS_REC_MASTER_ABORT bit set, what
> mean that DMA transfer on PCI bus was aborted.
> 
> I provided to user modified driver with module parameter, that allow
> to experiment with different dma_mask's. He told that maximum working 
> dma_mask for him is 32 bits set.
> 
> Is 32bit DMA limit for every skge device acceptable patch?

No. The device does support 64 bit DMA, the problem is a crap implementation
of the device the motherboard. Therefore a PCI quirk or module parameter
is a better solution.
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