Re: Allocating buffers for USB transfers (again)

[Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 13:53:46 schrieb Daniel Mack:
> Takashi recently posted a patch to the bugzilla entry which uses a
> different approach: it introduces a function to determine suitable GFP
> flags for USB devices, and passes __DMA32 to kmalloc() eventually.
> However, using this flags directly with the SLUB allocator is illegal
> and causes a BUG() in mm/slub.c, cache_grow().
> 
> The question now is how to proceed. I see three possible ways.
> 
> 1. Find a way to allocate 32bit-aware memory with kmalloc(), following
> Takashi's idea

That is not really a good idea, because many drivers have to deal with buffers
another subsystem has allocated.

> 2. Find out exactly why these machines fail to install bounce buffers
> or set up their IOMMU correctly

This is still the correct approach. Given the cause this cannot be a problem
only for audio. We need the root cause.

> 3. re-activate the currently disabled functions
> usb_buffer_{map,unmap,sync} functions and let the USB stack do the
> memory mapping

The USB stack does call the DMA mapping operations.

	Regards
		Oliver

PS:  Do you still see this if you enable 64bit DMA for EHCI?