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| author | Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> | 2007-03-29 08:44:02 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-04-13 03:55:13 +1000 |
| commit | 569975591c5530fdc9c7a3c45122e5e46f075a74 (patch) | |
| tree | 47908de09d2e7d55d82a3b9d2e47b34b2c7f8133 /arch/powerpc/lib | |
| parent | 1f9209cfe06be715b82075e79c9aab3c5b714010 (diff) | |
[POWERPC] DMA 4GB boundary protection
There are many adapters which cannot handle DMAing across any 4 GB
boundary. For instance, the latest Emulex adapters.
This normally is not an issue as firmware gives dma-windows under
4gigs. However, some of the new System-P boxes have dma-windows above
4gigs, and this present a problem.
During initialization of the IOMMU tables, the last entry at each 4GB
boundary is marked as used. Thus no mappings can cross the boundary.
If a table ends at a 4GB boundary, the entry is not marked as used.
A boot option to remove this 4GB protection is given w/ protect4gb=off.
This exposes the potential issue for driver and hardware development
purposes.
Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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