net: change illegal_highdma to use dma_mask
authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:35:50 +0000 (22:35 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 2 Apr 2010 02:53:12 +0000 (19:53 -0700)
commit5acbbd428db47b12f137a8a2aa96b3c0a96b744e
tree20ffdc4e418a086411f6fa8ff4ead2d488bda8da
parent4fd89b7af28292e190650b9b9bc4308658d81dd1
net: change illegal_highdma to use dma_mask

Robert Hancock pointed out two problems about NETIF_F_HIGHDMA:

-Many drivers only set the flag when they detect they can use 64-bit DMA,
since otherwise they could receive DMA addresses that they can't handle
(which on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB support is fatal). This means that if
64-bit support isn't available, even buffers located below 4GB will get copied
unnecessarily.

-Some drivers set the flag even though they can't actually handle 64-bit DMA,
which would mean that on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB they would get a DMA
mapping error if the memory they received happened to be located above 4GB.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/3/530

We can use the dma_mask if we need bouncing or not here. Then we can
safely fix drivers that misuse NETIF_F_HIGHDMA.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c