Re: [PATCH]: PCI: GART iommu alignment fixes [v2]

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:10:33 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:19:43AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > pci_alloc_consistent/dma_alloc_coherent does not return size aligned
> > addresses.
> > 
> > >From Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt:
> > 
> > "pci_alloc_consistent returns two values: the virtual address which you
> > can use to access it from the CPU and dma_handle which you pass to the
> > card.
> > 
> > The cpu return address and the DMA bus master address are both
> > guaranteed to be aligned to the smallest PAGE_SIZE order which
> > is greater than or equal to the requested size.  This invariant
> > exists (for example) to guarantee that if you allocate a chunk
> > which is smaller than or equal to 64 kilobytes, the extent of the
> > buffer you receive will not cross a 64K boundary."
> 
> Interesting. Have you experienced any problems because of that
> misbehavior in the GART code? AMD IOMMU currently also violates this
> requirement. I will send a patch to fix that there too.

IIRC, only PARISC and POWER IOMMUs follow the above rule. So I also
wondered what problem he hit.
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