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Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] iommu/pci: reserve IOVA for PCI masters

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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:52:06AM +0530, Oza Pawandeep wrote:
>> this patch reserves the IOVA for PCI masters.
>> ARM64 based SOCs may have scattered memory banks.
>> such as iproc based SOC has
>>
>> <0x00000000 0x80000000 0x0 0x80000000>, /* 2G @ 2G */
>> <0x00000008 0x80000000 0x3 0x80000000>, /* 14G @ 34G */
>> <0x00000090 0x00000000 0x4 0x00000000>, /* 16G @ 576G */
>> <0x000000a0 0x00000000 0x4 0x00000000>; /* 16G @ 640G */
>>
>> but incoming PCI transcation addressing capability is limited
>
> s/transcation/transaction/
>
>> by host bridge, for example if max incoming window capability
>> is 512 GB, then 0x00000090 and 0x000000a0 will fall beyond it.
>>
>> to address this problem, iommu has to avoid allocating IOVA which
>
> s/iommu/IOMMU/
>
>> are reserved. which inturn does not allocate IOVA if it falls into hole.
>
> s/inturn/in turn/

Hi Bjorn,

Thank you for the comments.
Will take care of all your comments.

Regards,
Oza.

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[PATCH v6 0/3] OF/PCI address PCI inbound memory limitations Oza Pawandeep <oza.oza@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-16 07:30 +0200
  [PATCH v6 2/3] iommu/pci: reserve IOVA for PCI masters Oza Pawandeep <oza.oza@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-16 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] iommu/pci: reserve IOVA for PCI masters Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2017-05-17 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] iommu/pci: reserve IOVA for PCI masters Oza Oza <oza.oza@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-19 03:30 +0200

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