Some devices have a dma-window that starts at the address 0. This allows
DMA addresses to be mapped to this address and returned to drivers as a
valid DMA address. Some drivers may not behave well in this case, since
the address 0 is considered an error or not allocated.
The solution to avoid this kind of error from happening is reserve the
page addressed as 0 so it cannot be allocated for a DMA mapping.
Ben Herrenschmidt deserves the credit for this patch. He pointed out the
solution and what code would do the job.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <redacted>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index 961bb03..53411bc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -501,6 +501,9 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(struct iommu_table *tbl, int nid)
tbl->it_map = page_address(page);
memset(tbl->it_map, 0, sz);
+ if (tbl->it_offset == 0)
+ set_bit(0, tbl->it_map);
+
tbl->it_hint = 0;
tbl->it_largehint = tbl->it_halfpoint;
spin_lock_init(&tbl->it_lock);
--
1.7.4.4