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| author | Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-09-20 03:07:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-09-23 10:27:03 +1000 |
| commit | d12b524f8b2f4e45cabe8bc1501e8b967d543111 (patch) | |
| tree | f19127f7d644ed9f009466aad57bceb8e0404f15 /arch | |
| parent | 25c29f9e3242071bca1bee7ad919baf1888ae436 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d12b524f8b2f4e45cabe8bc1501e8b967d543111.tar.bz2 | |
powerpc: Reserve iommu page 0
Some devices have a dma-window that starts at the address 0. This allows
DMA addresses to be mapped to this address and returned to drivers as a
valid DMA address. Some drivers may not behave well in this case, since
the address 0 is considered an error or not allocated.
The solution to avoid this kind of error from happening is reserve the
page addressed as 0 so it cannot be allocated for a DMA mapping.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c index 961bb03413f3..0cfcf98aafca 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c @@ -501,6 +501,14 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(struct iommu_table *tbl, int nid) tbl->it_map = page_address(page); memset(tbl->it_map, 0, sz); + /* + * Reserve page 0 so it will not be used for any mappings. + * This avoids buggy drivers that consider page 0 to be invalid + * to crash the machine or even lose data. + */ + if (tbl->it_offset == 0) + set_bit(0, tbl->it_map); + tbl->it_hint = 0; tbl->it_largehint = tbl->it_halfpoint; spin_lock_init(&tbl->it_lock); |