Re: Is: virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init issues? Was:Re: upstream boot error: general protection fault in swiotlb_map

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Aug 24 2020 - 11:17:25 EST


On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> So it fails at
>
> 683 dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, 1,
> 684 "swiotlb addr %pad+%zu overflow (mask %llx, bus limit %llx).\n",
> 685 &dma_addr, size, *dev->dma_mask, dev->bus_dma_limit);
>
>
> which makes no sense to me as `dev` surely exists. I can see in the console log:
>
> virtio-pci 0000:00:01.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
>
> So what gives?

Well, look at the if around the WARN_ON - dma_capable failed on the
swiotlb buffer. This means the virtio drm thingy has a dma mask
(either the actual one set by the driver, or bus_dma_mask), which isn't
enough to address the swiotlb buffer.