Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] support 64 bit pci_alloc_consistent | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 18 May 2003 09:17:48 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 04:29, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > An interface like > > #define PCI_DMA_64BIT 0xffffffffffffffffULL > #define PCI_DMA_32BIT 0xffffffffULL
This we can add now.
> void pci_set_dma_capabilities(device, > u64 streaming_mask, u64 persistent_mask); > u64 pci_get_effective_streaming_mask(device); > u64 pci_get_effective_persistent_mask(device); >
I see the value in this for weird mask devices, but I don't think it's a "must fix" for 2.6 since the weird mask devices can advertise a lower standard supported mask.
The aic driver, for instance, seems to have a 39 bit addressing range (it uses 32 bit addr and 32 bit len descriptors, but reduces len to 24 bits to steal the extra byte for 7 bits extra addressing). However, it is forced to request the full 64 bit address mask---I've never worked out what will happen to it on a machine with more than 512GB memory.
The lack of a coherent_mask is causing breakage on some platforms, so putting it in is a 2.6 must fix thing.
James
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