[alsa-devel] [PATCH]: x86_64, audio: Fix system panic when DMA > 40 bits

[David Henningsson]

On 05/02/2013 08:36 AM, Mike Travis wrote:
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> On 5/1/2013 11:20 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
>> On 05/01/2013 09:04 PM, Mike Travis wrote:
>>> The audio driver mistakenly allows 64 bit addresses to be created for
>>> the audio driver on Nvidia GPUs.  Unfortunately, the hardware normally
>>> only supports up to 40 bits of DMA.  This can cause system panics as
>>> well as misdirected data when the address is > 40 bits as the upper
>>> part the address is truncated.
>>
>> Thanks for this patch. Stephen Warren, is this something you can
>> confirm/deny, and do you know what range of hardware this actually
>> applies to?
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> The dma_mask can be read from the gpu device's pci entry.  I know it's
> a stretch to try to link to that but past history has shown that it
> ranges from 36 to 40 bits.

Ok, so the below patch is some kind of workaround, as we don't currently 
take the dma_mask into account correctly? Or put in another way, would 
it be possible/better to actually read the dma_mask and use that instead 
of just clamping at 32 bit?

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>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis at sgi.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Mike Habeck <habeck at sgi.com>
>>> ---
>>>    sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 2 +-
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
>>> index bcd40ee..45eb165 100644
>>> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
>>> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
>>> @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ enum {
>>>    /* quirks for Nvidia */
>>>    #define AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_NVIDIA \
>>>        (AZX_DCAPS_NVIDIA_SNOOP | AZX_DCAPS_RIRB_DELAY |
>>> AZX_DCAPS_NO_MSI |\
>>> -     AZX_DCAPS_ALIGN_BUFSIZE)
>>> +     AZX_DCAPS_ALIGN_BUFSIZE | AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT)
>>>
>>>    #define AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA \
>>>        (AZX_DCAPS_NO_MSI | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB |
>>> AZX_DCAPS_4K_BDLE_BOUNDARY)
>>>
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