Re: [PATCH V2] drm/amdgpu: limit DMA size to PAGE_SIZE for scatter-gather buffers

[Christian KÃnig]

Am 11.04.2018 um 08:26 schrieb Huang Rui:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:59:55PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > Code is expecing to observe the same number of buffers returned from
> > dma_map_sg() function compared to sg_alloc_table_from_pages(). This
> > doesn't hold true universally especially for systems with IOMMU.
> >
> > IOMMU driver tries to combine buffers into a single DMA address as much
> > as it can. The right thing is to tell the DMA layer how much combining
> > IOMMU can do.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sinan, I guess Christian's suggestion is to add amdgpu_device_init function
> like here:

Yes, exactly. Looks like Sinan just tried to place the call next to 
pci_set_dma_mask()/pci_set_consistent_dma_mask().

Not necessary a bad idea, but in this case not optimal.

Sinan please refine your patch as Rui suggested and resend.

Thanks,
Christian.

> 8<-------
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> index 0e798b3..9b96771 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> @@ -2339,6 +2339,8 @@ int amdgpu_device_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>          /* init the mode config */
>          drm_mode_config_init(adev->ddev);
>
> +       dma_set_max_seg_size(adev->dev, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
>          r = amdgpu_device_ip_init(adev);
>          if (r) {
>                  /* failed in exclusive mode due to timeout */
> 8<-------
>
> After that, we don't do it in each generation.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
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