netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: set coherent DMA mask as well as streaming DMA mask

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:31:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org
Cc:     romieu@...zoreil.com, nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: set coherent DMA mask as well as streaming DMA
 mask

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:39:30 +0100

> PCI devices that are 64-bit DMA capable should set the coherent
> DMA mask as well as the streaming DMA mask. On some architectures,
> these are managed separately, and so the coherent DMA mask will be
> left at its default value of 32 if it is not set explicitly. This
> results in errors such as
> 
>      r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
>      hwdev DMA mask = 0x00000000ffffffff, dev_addr = 0x00000080fbfff000
>      swiotlb: coherent allocation failed for device 0000:02:00.0 size=4096
>      CPU: 0 PID: 1062 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.8.0+ #35
>      Hardware name: AMD Seattle/Seattle, BIOS 10:53:24 Oct 13 2016
> 
> on systems without memory that is 32-bit addressable by PCI devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
 ...
> @@ -8281,6 +8282,8 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>  		dev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
>  	} else {
>  		rc = pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
> +		if (!rc)
> +			rc = pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));

As you state 32-bit is the default, therefore this part of your patch is unnecessary.