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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 02:57:00PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad@darnok.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:28:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> On architectures like arm64, swiotlb is tied intimately to the core
> >> architecture DMA support. In addition, ZONE_DMA cannot be disabled.
> >>
> >> To aid debugging and catch devices not supporting DMA to memory outside
> >> the 32-bit address space, add a kernel command line option
> >> "swiotlb=noforce", which disables the use of bounce buffers.
> >> If specified, trying to map memory that cannot be used with DMA will
> >> fail, and a rate-limited warning will be printed.
> >>
> >> Note that io_tlb_nslabs is set to 1, which is the minimal supported
> >> value.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> >
> > What is this based on? I can't apply it on my latest that I had
> > sent to Linus?
> 
> I rebased it on last Friday's linux-next, due to the recent move of
> kernel-parameters.txt.
> All the rest should be identical to your linux-next branch.
> 
> > Could you rebase this one please on:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb.git stable/for-linus-4.9
> 
> That one indeed doesn't have the move of kernel-parameters.txt.
> 
> > Or if alternatively that does not - then please rebase it on
> > b5cab0da75c292ffa0fbd68dd2c820066b2842de
> 
> However, my series already applies cleanly with git am on top of
> that commit?

Ah that does indeed work.

Which means I can't push it to Linus until rc2 at least.

Linus is sad when he sees git pulls that hadn't "soaked"
for two weeks in linux-next - and especially patches on top of
merges during the merge window.

> 
> Please let me know what to do. Thanks!

Building and testing them now.

Wish there was some travis script to do this.

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[PATCH v2 0/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2016-12-16 14:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/3] swiotlb: Convert swiotlb_force from int to enum Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2016-12-16 14:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2016-12-16 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org> - 2016-12-19 14:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-12-19 15:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2016-12-19 15:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/3] x86, swiotlb: Simplify pci_swiotlb_detect_override() Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2016-12-16 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org> - 2016-12-19 14:40 +0100

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