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x86/PCI: fix broken ISA DMA 

Rene Herman reported:

> commit 8779f2fc3b
>
> "x86: don't try to allocate from DMA zone at first"
>
> breaks all of ISA DMA. Or all of ALSA ISA DMA at least. All
> ISA soundcards are silent following that commit -- no error
> messages, everything appears fine, just silence.

That patch is buggy. We had an implicit assumption that
dev = NULL for ISA devices that require 24bit DMA.

The recent work on x86 dma_alloc_coherent() breaks the ISA DMA buffer
allocation, which is represented by "dev = NULL" and requires 24bit
DMA implicitly.

Bisected-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Takashi Iwai 2008-05-09 08:06:55 +02:00 committed by Jesse Barnes
parent 21e2b0a5ef
commit 4a367f3a9d
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
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@ -385,11 +385,13 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
if (dma_alloc_from_coherent_mem(dev, size, dma_handle, &memory))
return memory;
if (!dev)
if (!dev) {
dev = &fallback_dev;
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
}
dma_mask = dev->coherent_dma_mask;
if (dma_mask == 0)
dma_mask = DMA_32BIT_MASK;
dma_mask = (gfp & GFP_DMA) ? DMA_24BIT_MASK : DMA_32BIT_MASK;
/* Device not DMA able */
if (dev->dma_mask == NULL)
@ -403,7 +405,7 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
larger than 16MB and in this case we have a chance of
finding fitting memory in the next higher zone first. If
not retry with true GFP_DMA. -AK */
if (dma_mask <= DMA_32BIT_MASK)
if (dma_mask <= DMA_32BIT_MASK && !(gfp & GFP_DMA))
gfp |= GFP_DMA32;
#endif