[PATCH] [Jaunty] iwlagn: fix iwlagn DMA mapping direction

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Mar 13 13:29:24 UTC 2009


Huaxu Wan wrote:
> From 15a046a31afe648dda750fc62f382df79f17f10a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan at intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:21:14 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] fix iwlagn DMA mapping direction
> 
> Backported from 6aa03ab06978e97b3e0720f83280d7841051916b in linux-2.6
> 
> When iwlan runs on IOMMU, IOMMU generates a lot of PTE write faults
> because PTE write bit is not set on some of PTE's.  This is because
> iwlan driver calls DMA mapping with PCI_DMA_TODEVICE which is read only
> in mapping PTE.  But iwlan device actually writes to the mapped page to
> update its contents.  This issue is not exposed in swiotlb.  But VT-d
> hardware can capture this fault and stop the fault transaction.
> 
> The following patch fixes the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan at intel.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> index 9e435bc..3171f9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> @@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ static int iwl_hw_txq_free_tfd(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_tx_queue *txq)
>  				(IWL_GET_BITS(bd->pa[index],
>  					      tb2_addr_hi20) << 16),
>  				IWL_GET_BITS(bd->pa[index], tb2_len),
> -				PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +				PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>  
>  		else if (i > 0)
>  			pci_unmap_single(dev,
>  					 le32_to_cpu(bd->pa[index].tb1_addr),
>  					 IWL_GET_BITS(bd->pa[index], tb1_len),
> -					 PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +					 PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>  
>  		/* Free SKB, if any, for this chunk */
>  		if (txq->txb[txq->q.read_ptr].skb[i]) {
> @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ int iwl_tx_skb(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	/* Physical address of this Tx command's header (not MAC header!),
>  	 * within command buffer array. */
>  	txcmd_phys = pci_map_single(priv->pci_dev, out_cmd,
> -				sizeof(struct iwl_cmd), PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +				sizeof(struct iwl_cmd), PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>  	txcmd_phys += offsetof(struct iwl_cmd, hdr);
>  
>  	/* Add buffer containing Tx command and MAC(!) header to TFD's
> @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ int iwl_enqueue_hcmd(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_host_cmd *cmd)
>  	len = (idx == TFD_CMD_SLOTS) ?
>  			IWL_MAX_SCAN_SIZE : sizeof(struct iwl_cmd);
>  	phys_addr = pci_map_single(priv->pci_dev, out_cmd, len,
> -						PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +						PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>  	phys_addr += offsetof(struct iwl_cmd, hdr);
>  	iwl_hw_txq_attach_buf_to_tfd(priv, tfd, phys_addr, fix_size);
>  
> @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ static void iwl_hcmd_queue_reclaim(struct iwl_priv *priv, int txq_id, int index)
>  		}
>  
>  		pci_unmap_single(priv->pci_dev, dma_addr, buf_len,
> -				 PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +				 PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>  		nfreed++;
>  	}
>  }

applied

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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