[PATCH] swiotlb: remove panic for alloc_coherent failure

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 05:42:26 EST


swiotlb_alloc_coherent calls panic() when allocated swiotlb pages is
not fit for a device's dma mask. However, alloc_coherent failure is
not a disaster at all. AFAIK, none of other x86 and IA64 IOMMU
implementations don't crash in case of alloc_coherent failure.

There are some drivers that don't check alloc_coherent failure but not
many (about ten and I've already started to fix some of
them). alloc_coherent returns NULL in case of failure so it's likely
that these guilty drivers crash immediately. So swiotlb doesn't need
to call panic() just for them.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/swiotlb.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/swiotlb.c b/lib/swiotlb.c
index f8eebd4..78330c3 100644
--- a/lib/swiotlb.c
+++ b/lib/swiotlb.c
@@ -497,8 +497,10 @@ swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *hwdev, size_t size,
printk("hwdev DMA mask = 0x%016Lx, dev_addr = 0x%016Lx\n",
(unsigned long long)*hwdev->dma_mask,
(unsigned long long)dev_addr);
- panic("swiotlb_alloc_coherent: allocated memory is out of "
- "range for device");
+
+ /* DMA_TO_DEVICE to avoid memcpy in unmap_single */
+ unmap_single(hwdev, ret, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ return NULL;
}
*dma_handle = dev_addr;
return ret;
--
1.5.5.GIT

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