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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: ATI radeon fails with "iommu=soft swiotlb=force" (se

To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: ATI radeon fails with "iommu=soft swiotlb=force" (seen on RV730/RV740 and RS780/RS800)
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:49:03 -0400
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:41:04AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:32:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 02.10.09 20:42 >>>
> >> >On 10/02/09 10:23, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >> >> Jeremy,
> >> >> Please,  be aware of bugzilla.xensource.com [1519]  the most recent
> >> >> entries :-
> >> >>
> >> >> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1519
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Ah, OK.  I pushed a variant of Konrad's patches.  Could you try them out?
> >>
> >> Are you really convinced fixing this in DRM is the right thing to do? To
> >> me, the use of vmalloc_32() in drivers/ieee1394/ seems to make similar
> >> assumptions (pci_map_sg() not modifying the buffer addresses), and
> >> who knows where else such assumptions exist. After all, vmalloc_32()
> >> is *defined* to have the property assumed by both of the users, and
> >> other than for most kmalloc() cases using GFP_DMA{,32} we're talking
> >> about double buffering generally large amounts of data here even in
> >> the cases where the DMA API is being used properly.
> >
> > I was chatting with Jeremy about this, and I realized that in some
> > sense the radeon driver assumes that physical != bus addresses. Which is
> > OK on x86, but if this card was ever moved to a Sun box it would fail.
> >
> 
> FWIW, the radeon drm has been working fine on both sparc and ppc for years.

Thank you for keeping me honest!

I thought that the IOMMU on those boxes would return physical != bus addresses?
Maybe those days are long gone?

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