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SubjectRe: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [Bug 1412] Copy from USB1 CF/SM reader stalls, no actual content is read (only directory structure)
Jens Axboe wrote:
> No that looks alright, given you are allocating low memory pages. The
> devices can probably do full 32-bit dma I bet, though.

Typically ... most usb host controllers you'll see are on
PCI (OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) with no restrictions, and only some
EHCI controllers can do 64-bit DMA. That's all visible in
the the dma_mask for each interface in the device with the
mass storage support, usually still at its "32-bit dma is ok"
pci controller default.

But it seems that most current 2.6 DMA API implementations
have some problems in those areas. See for example:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106746453218943&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=106789996221347&w=2

That second patch is a partial workaround for the first patch
presumably not getting applied before 2.6.0-final. Net result,
some systems with gobs of memory and no IOMMU may do needless
buffer copies during USB I/O.

Though a quick glance suggested to me that SCSI infrastructure
is consulting dma_mask directly, instead of using the DMA API
calls which do that. I'm not sure I'd trust it to be any
more correct, given GIGO ...

- Dave

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