[PATCH] PCI: Allow arch-specific pci_set_dma_mask and friends
The patch provides the ability for architectures to have custom implementations of pci_set_dma_mask() and friends (dac_set_dma_mask and set_consistent_dma_mask). The reason I need this is b/c I have a chipset (Intel ARM IXP425) that has a broken PCI interface that only allows PCI dma to/from the bottom 64MB of system memory. To get around this limitation, I trap a custom dma-mapping implementation that bounces buffers outside the 64MB window. At device discover time, my custom platform_notify() function gets called and it sets the dma_mask to (64MB-1) and in ARM's dma-mapping code, I check for dma_mask != 0xffffffff and if that is true, I call the special bounce helpers. This works great except that certain drivers (e100, ide-pci) call pci_set_dma_mask() with 0xffffffff and the generic implementation only allows for the architecture-defined pci_dma_supported() to return true or false. There is no method for the architecture to tell the PCI layer "I can't set the mask to 0xffffffff, but I can set it to this other value" and there is no way to pass that back to the driver. What this means is that if I have pci_set_dma_supported() return failure on full 32-bit DMA, the driver will not initialize the card; however, if I return true, pci_set_dma_mask() will set the dma mask to full 32-bits and I can no longer trap and will have buffers that are not dma-able and cause PCI master aborts. Both of those are not acceptable. IMHO, the driver shouldn't care if the architecture has to bounce DMA outside of 64MB and since this is not something most architectures have to worry about, the easiest way to get around the issue is by allowing custom pci_set_dma_mask() for arches that need it but keeping the generic implementation for those that do not. In my case, it simply returns 0 to the driver but keeps the device mask set to 64MB-1 so I can trap.
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