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

[Mike Travis]

On 5/2/2013 1:29 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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?\

Yes, it would.  There is a strange scenario where if you request
a DMA32 address it must be on the lowest node (where the DMA32 area
is).  But if you are running on a cpuset that excludes Node 0's
memory, you'll get an error.  But I couldn't think of a workable
way to link the two (except that the PCI id is the same except
for the function #.)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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