iwlwifi: dma mapping read and write changes
When iwlwifi runs on IOMMU, IOMMU generates a lot of PTE write faults because PTE write bit is not set on some of PTE's. This is because iwlwifi driver calls DMA mapping with PCI_DMA_TODEVICE which is read only in mapping PTE. But iwlwifi device actually writes to the mapped page to update its contents. This issue is not exposed in swiotlb. But VT-d hardware can capture this fault and stop the fault transaction. The iwl TX command contains a scratch field that is updated by uCode to indicate retry counts. For 5000 series the patch is required also for regular frames, but this patch does not differenciate. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment