Re: allow larger than require DMA masks

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 17:26:06 EST


On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:59:42PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > if (mask > ~0U)
> > » » return 0;
> >
> > Removing the if() makes the DMA mapping work. It's almost midnight
> > here, so i won't look into that any further today. Does anyone have
> > an opinion on this behaviour? Otherwise i will look a bit more into
> > this in the next days.
>
> The reason for the if was to kick the device into 32 bit descriptors,
> which are usually more efficient, especially with older dual descriptor
> format cards like we have on parisc systems.

These days we use the dma_get_required_mask API to query for that.

Svens patch looks right for how we are now using the DMA mask setting
API.