Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: check dma_mask for streaming mapping allocs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 10:59:14 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 09:41:43PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> For newly added streaming mapping APIs, the internal core function
> __dma_alloc_pages() should check dev->dma_mask, but not
> ev->coherent_dma_mask which is for coherent mapping.

No, this is wrong. dev->coherent_dma_mask is and should be used here.

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> Meanwhile, just filter out gfp flags if they are any of
> __GFP_DMA, __GFP_DMA32 and __GFP_HIGHMEM, but not fail it. This change
> makes it consistent with coherent mapping allocs.

This is wrong as well. We want to eventually fail dma_alloc_coherent
for these, too. It just needs more work.