This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: brcmstb: Enable ZONE_DMA for non 64-bit capable peripherals
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm-brcmstb-enable-zone_dma-for-non-64-bit-capable-peripherals.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018
From: Al Cooper alcooperx@gmail.com Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:51:18 -0800 Subject: ARM: brcmstb: Enable ZONE_DMA for non 64-bit capable peripherals
From: Al Cooper alcooperx@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 3c51b9c7f1fae00c25f1e34da649a288e3fea1ae ]
Some Host Controller hardware blocks, like the OHCI, EHCI and SDIO controllers, have hardware blocks that are not capable of doing 64 bit DMA. These host controllers fail on boards with >3GB of memory because the memory above 3GB is located physically >= 0x100000000 and can only be accessed using 64 DMA. The way Linux is currently configured for BRCMSTB systems, the memory given to drivers for DMA through functions like dma_alloc_coherent() comes from CMA memory and CMA memory is taken from the top of physical memory. When these drivers get a DMA buffer with an address >=0x100000000, they end up dropping the upper 32 bit of the address causing the hardware to DMA to incorrect memory, typically BMEM (custom memory carveout). This issue was discovered on a BCM97449SSV_DDR4 system with 4GB or memory.
The fix is to enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA. On ARM systems this makes sure that all DMA memory is located within the first 32 bits of address space.
Signed-off-by: Al Cooper alcooperx@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ config ARCH_BRCMSTB select BRCMSTB_L2_IRQ select BCM7120_L2_IRQ select ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT if ARM_LPAE + select ZONE_DMA if ARM_LPAE select SOC_BRCMSTB select SOC_BUS help
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alcooperx@gmail.com are
queue-4.9/arm-brcmstb-enable-zone_dma-for-non-64-bit-capable-peripherals.patch