Re: AMD Quad core - PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on > 4 GB RAM

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM, FUJITA Tomonori
> <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:15:37 -0700
>> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've run into "PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space" messages after loading and
>>> unloading a module 30 times. The interesting thing is this only
>>> happens if I have > 4 GB of memory. The box this occurs has AMD Phenom
>>> quad core CPU so I take it a harware IOMMU is being used. Below are
>>> example relevant messages with > 4 GB and then < 4 GB of memory. The
>>> driver I tested this with was ath9k. It could be an issue perhaps with
>>> ath9k but I am unable to find an issue in our probe/removal.
>>>
>>> Could this be an issue with the AMD IOMMU used? Or is it more likely a
>>> driver issue?
>>
>> ath9k wants DMA_32BIT_MASK, right? If so, GART IOMMU does nothing on a
>> system with < 4GB memory since ath9k can access to all the memory
>> addresses directly. With >4GB memory, GART needs to remap an address
>> higher than 4GB because ath9k wants DMA_32BIT_MASK.
>>
>> From a quick look, ath9k doesn't call pci_unmap_single for rx
>> buffers. Though I might be wrong because I don't know anything about
>> the driver.
>
> You seem to be right actually, we were calling pci_unmap_single() for
> rx buffers on the RX tasklet but never for the simple case of removing
> the module. Will test it out in a bit.

That was it, thanks.. will propagate the patch.

  Luis