Allow swiotlb to move block data bouncing to the block layer The block layer is generally in a better position to bounce than swiotlb because it is allowed to sleep at the right places. swiotlb cannot do that and is thus more prone to panic and failing on overflow. With the mask allocator pool block layer bouncing and swiotlb allocate from the same pool, so it's quite possible to shift some of the bounce burden to the block layer. This patch adds a new variable to set the bounce threshold for 64bit hosts and sets it to zero for swiotlb. This has the effect to always doing the data bounces in the block layer for swiotlb, assuming the block driver set the correct bounce pfn. If it forgets that only sets its dma mask swiotlb will still take the burden. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb_64.c | 3 +++ block/blk-settings.c | 4 +++- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/block/blk-settings.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/block/blk-settings.c +++ linux/block/blk-settings.c @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_max_low_pfn); unsigned long blk_max_pfn; EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_max_pfn); +unsigned long blk_min_iommu = 0xffffffff; + /** * blk_queue_prep_rq - set a prepare_request function for queue * @q: queue @@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ void blk_queue_bounce_limit(struct reque /* Assume anything <= 4GB can be handled by IOMMU. Actually some IOMMUs can handle everything, but I don't know of a way to test this here. */ - if (b_pfn <= (min_t(u64, 0xffffffff, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) + if (b_pfn <= (min_t(u64, blk_min_iommu, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) dma = 1; q->bounce_pfn = max_low_pfn; #else Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb_64.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb_64.c +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb_64.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -412,6 +413,8 @@ void __init pci_swiotlb_init(void) dma_ops = &dmatlb_dma_ops; } + + blk_min_iommu = BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH; } #define COMPAT_IO_TLB_SHIFT 11 Index: linux/include/linux/blkdev.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ linux/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static inline void blk_clear_queue_full( #define BLKPREP_KILL 1 /* fatal error, kill */ #define BLKPREP_DEFER 2 /* leave on queue */ -extern unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn, blk_max_pfn; +extern unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn, blk_max_pfn, blk_min_iommu; /* * standard bounce addresses: