Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv5 0/4] dma, x86, xen: reduce SWIOTLB usage in Xen guests

2014-12-05 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 02:07:59PM +, David Vrabel wrote: > On systems where DMA addresses and physical addresses are not 1:1 > (such as Xen PV guests), the generic dma_get_required_mask() will not > return the correct mask (since it uses max_pfn). > > Some device drivers (such as mptsas, mpt2

[Xen-devel] [PATCHv5 0/4] dma, x86, xen: reduce SWIOTLB usage in Xen guests

2014-12-05 Thread David Vrabel
On systems where DMA addresses and physical addresses are not 1:1 (such as Xen PV guests), the generic dma_get_required_mask() will not return the correct mask (since it uses max_pfn). Some device drivers (such as mptsas, mpt2sas) use dma_get_required_mask() to set the device's DMA mask to allow t