Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use 64-bit DMA addresses for LPAE+VirtIO-MMIO

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Mar 21 2014 - 12:28:30 EST


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 05:35:19PM +0000, Christopher Covington wrote:
> On an LPAE system, the physical addresses used by VirtIO-MMIO may
> be larger than 32 bits, even if the header and configuration space
> addresses fit into 32 bits. For example with the Versatile Express
> memory map using 4G memory, the following error occured when trying
> to use a VirtIO-MMIO block device.
>
> EXT2-fs (vda): error: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: :
> unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=3755990991, rec_len=57311,
> name_len=223
>
> To fix this, select ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT when both LPAE and
> VIRTIO_MMIO are selected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> index 1f8fed9..a62bcc9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ config ARM_LPAE
> bool "Support for the Large Physical Address Extension"
> depends on MMU && CPU_32v7 && !CPU_32v6 && !CPU_32v5 && \
> !CPU_32v4 && !CPU_32v3
> + select ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT if VIRTIO_MMIO

That's the wrong place to enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT. Do you have a
platform with >32-bit physical address space? If yes, it should be
selected there.

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Catalin
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