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<title>linux.git/drivers/firewire/ohci.c, branch v3.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: replace vm_map_ram() with vmap()</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T10:57:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-16T20:08:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=51b04d59c27430a57c347b55478415c342009035'/>
<id>51b04d59c27430a57c347b55478415c342009035</id>
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vm_map_ram() is intended for short-lived objects, so using it for the AR
buffers could fragment address space, especially on a 32-bit machine.
For an allocation that lives as long as the device, vmap() is the better
choice.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<pre>
vm_map_ram() is intended for short-lived objects, so using it for the AR
buffers could fragment address space, especially on a 32-bit machine.
For an allocation that lives as long as the device, vmap() is the better
choice.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'firewire-fix-vt6315' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394</title>
<updated>2014-07-27T16:42:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-27T16:42:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2bdb5eb79bbb0403fd272d097b14ae649302b98d'/>
<id>2bdb5eb79bbb0403fd272d097b14ae649302b98d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull firewire regression fix from Stefan Richter:
 "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem fix: MSI don't work on VIA PCIe
  controllers with some isochronous workloads (regression since
  v3.16-rc1)"

* tag 'firewire-fix-vt6315' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: ohci: disable MSI for VIA VT6315 again
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull firewire regression fix from Stefan Richter:
 "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem fix: MSI don't work on VIA PCIe
  controllers with some isochronous workloads (regression since
  v3.16-rc1)"

* tag 'firewire-fix-vt6315' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: ohci: disable MSI for VIA VT6315 again
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: disable MSI for VIA VT6315 again</title>
<updated>2014-07-23T18:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-23T18:08:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d584a66279949561418c82b12bb4c055e6c25836'/>
<id>d584a66279949561418c82b12bb4c055e6c25836</id>
<content type='text'>
Revert half of commit d151f9854f21:  If isochronous I/O is attempted with
packets larget than 1 kByte, VIA VT6315 rev 01 immediately stops to generate
any interrupts if MSI are used.  Fix this by going back to legacy interrupts.
[Thread "Isochronous streaming with VT6315 OHCI",
http://marc.info/?t=139049641500003]

With smaller packets, the loss of IRQs happens too but only very rarely ---
rarely eneough that it was not yet possible for me to determine whether
QUIRK_NO_MSI is an actual fix for this rare variation of this chip bug.

I am keeping QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER off of VT6315 rev &gt;= 1 because this has been
verified by myself with certainty.  On the other hand, I am also keeping
QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER on for VT6315 rev 0 because I don't know at this time
whether this revision accesses Cycle Timer non-atomically like most of the
other VIA OHCIs are known to do.

Reported-by: Rémy Bruno &lt;remy-fw@remy.trinnov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<pre>
Revert half of commit d151f9854f21:  If isochronous I/O is attempted with
packets larget than 1 kByte, VIA VT6315 rev 01 immediately stops to generate
any interrupts if MSI are used.  Fix this by going back to legacy interrupts.
[Thread "Isochronous streaming with VT6315 OHCI",
http://marc.info/?t=139049641500003]

With smaller packets, the loss of IRQs happens too but only very rarely ---
rarely eneough that it was not yet possible for me to determine whether
QUIRK_NO_MSI is an actual fix for this rare variation of this chip bug.

I am keeping QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER off of VT6315 rev &gt;= 1 because this has been
verified by myself with certainty.  On the other hand, I am also keeping
QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER on for VT6315 rev 0 because I don't know at this time
whether this revision accesses Cycle Timer non-atomically like most of the
other VIA OHCIs are known to do.

Reported-by: Rémy Bruno &lt;remy-fw@remy.trinnov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394 into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T14:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T14:47:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1b3636093d4e07f5fc8a8eb2f9a5e14a5a2674bf'/>
<id>1b3636093d4e07f5fc8a8eb2f9a5e14a5a2674bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull firewire updates from Stefan Richter:
 "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem changes: One optimization for some VIA
  controllers, one fix, one kconfig brushup"

* tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: ohci: enable MSI for VIA VT6315 rev 1, drop cycle timer quirk
  firewire: Use COMPILE_TEST for build testing
  firewire: net: fix NULL derefencing in fwnet_probe()
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<pre>
Pull firewire updates from Stefan Richter:
 "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem changes: One optimization for some VIA
  controllers, one fix, one kconfig brushup"

* tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: ohci: enable MSI for VIA VT6315 rev 1, drop cycle timer quirk
  firewire: Use COMPILE_TEST for build testing
  firewire: net: fix NULL derefencing in fwnet_probe()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=776edb59317ada867dfcddde40b55648beeb0078'/>
<id>776edb59317ada867dfcddde40b55648beeb0078</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: enable MSI for VIA VT6315 rev 1, drop cycle timer quirk</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T17:02:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-15T23:08:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d151f9854f21fbb6a2df73553a27f9b664ecd10c'/>
<id>d151f9854f21fbb6a2df73553a27f9b664ecd10c</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit af0cdf494781 "firewire: ohci: fix regression with VIA VT6315,
disable MSI" acted upon a report against VT6315 rev 0:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-12/msg02301.html
$ lspci -nn
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403]

I now got a card with
$ lspci -nn
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403] (rev 01)
and this works fine with MSI enabled.

Second, I tested this VT6315 rev 1 without CYCLE_TIMER quirk flag using
http://me.in-berlin.de/~s5r6/linux1394/utils/test_cycle_time_v20100125.c
and found that this chip does in fact access the cycle timer atomically.

Things I can't test because I don't have the hardware:
  - whether VT6315 rev 0 really needs QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER,
  - whether the VT6320 PCI device needs QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER,
  - whether the VT6325 and VT6330 PCIe devices need QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER
    and QUIRK_NO_MSI.

Hence, just add a whitelist entry specifically for VT6315 rev &gt;= 1
without any quirk flags.  Before this entry we need an extra entry to
catch VT6315 rev &lt;= 0 due to how our ID matching logic works.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<pre>
Commit af0cdf494781 "firewire: ohci: fix regression with VIA VT6315,
disable MSI" acted upon a report against VT6315 rev 0:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-12/msg02301.html
$ lspci -nn
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403]

I now got a card with
$ lspci -nn
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403] (rev 01)
and this works fine with MSI enabled.

Second, I tested this VT6315 rev 1 without CYCLE_TIMER quirk flag using
http://me.in-berlin.de/~s5r6/linux1394/utils/test_cycle_time_v20100125.c
and found that this chip does in fact access the cycle timer atomically.

Things I can't test because I don't have the hardware:
  - whether VT6315 rev 0 really needs QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER,
  - whether the VT6320 PCI device needs QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER,
  - whether the VT6325 and VT6330 PCIe devices need QUIRK_CYCLE_TIMER
    and QUIRK_NO_MSI.

Hence, just add a whitelist entry specifically for VT6315 rev &gt;= 1
without any quirk flags.  Before this entry we need an extra entry to
catch VT6315 rev &lt;= 0 due to how our ID matching logic works.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: revert to 4 GB RDMA, fix protocols using Memory Space</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T13:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-29T13:23:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2fe2023adf695d08af5b598b2be3b288a95d563c'/>
<id>2fe2023adf695d08af5b598b2be3b288a95d563c</id>
<content type='text'>
Undo a feature introduced in v3.14 by commit fcd46b34425d
"firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB".  That change raised the
minimum address at which protocol drivers and user programs can register
for request reception from 0x0001'0000'0000 to 0x8000'0000'0000.
It turned out that at least one vendor-specific protocol exists which
uses lower addresses:  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76921

For the time being, revert most of commit fcd46b34425d so that affected
protocols work like with kernel v3.13 and before.  Just keep the valid
documentation parts from the regressing commit, and the ability to
identify controllers which could be programmed to accept &gt;32 bit
physical DMA addresses.  The rest of fcd46b34425d should probably be
brought back as an optional instead of default feature.

Reported-by: Fabien Spindler &lt;fabien.spindler@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<pre>
Undo a feature introduced in v3.14 by commit fcd46b34425d
"firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB".  That change raised the
minimum address at which protocol drivers and user programs can register
for request reception from 0x0001'0000'0000 to 0x8000'0000'0000.
It turned out that at least one vendor-specific protocol exists which
uses lower addresses:  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76921

For the time being, revert most of commit fcd46b34425d so that affected
protocols work like with kernel v3.13 and before.  Just keep the valid
documentation parts from the regressing commit, and the ability to
identify controllers which could be programmed to accept &gt;32 bit
physical DMA addresses.  The rest of fcd46b34425d should probably be
brought back as an optional instead of default feature.

Reported-by: Fabien Spindler &lt;fabien.spindler@inria.fr&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T17:06:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4e857c58efeb99393cba5a5d0d8ec7117183137c'/>
<id>4e857c58efeb99393cba5a5d0d8ec7117183137c</id>
<content type='text'>
Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: fix probe failure with Agere/LSI controllers</title>
<updated>2014-03-06T20:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-06T19:39:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0ca49345b6f489e95f8d6edeb0b092e257475b2a'/>
<id>0ca49345b6f489e95f8d6edeb0b092e257475b2a</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit bd972688eb24
"firewire: ohci: Fix 'failed to read phy reg' on FW643 rev8",
there is a high chance that firewire-ohci fails to initialize LSI née
Agere controllers.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65151

Peter Hurley points out the reason:  IEEE 1394a:2000 clause 5A.1 (or
IEEE 1394:2008 clause 17.2.1) say:  "The PHY shall insure that no more
than 10 ms elapse from the reassertion of LPS until the interface is
reset.  The link shall not assert LReq until the reset is complete."
In other words, the link needs to give the PHY at least 10 ms to get
the interface operational.

With just the msleep(1) in bd972688eb24, the first read_phy_reg()
during ohci_enable() may happen before the phy-link interface reset was
finished, and fail.  Due to the high variability of msleep(n) with small
n, this failure was not fully reproducible, and not apparent at all with
low CONFIG_HZ setting.

On the other hand, Peter can no longer reproduce the issue with FW643
rev8.  The read phy reg failures that happened back then may have had an
unrelated cause.  So, just revert bd972688eb24, except for the valid
comment on TSB82AA2 cards.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov
Reported-by: Jay Fenlason &lt;fenlason@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit bd972688eb24
"firewire: ohci: Fix 'failed to read phy reg' on FW643 rev8",
there is a high chance that firewire-ohci fails to initialize LSI née
Agere controllers.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65151

Peter Hurley points out the reason:  IEEE 1394a:2000 clause 5A.1 (or
IEEE 1394:2008 clause 17.2.1) say:  "The PHY shall insure that no more
than 10 ms elapse from the reassertion of LPS until the interface is
reset.  The link shall not assert LReq until the reset is complete."
In other words, the link needs to give the PHY at least 10 ms to get
the interface operational.

With just the msleep(1) in bd972688eb24, the first read_phy_reg()
during ohci_enable() may happen before the phy-link interface reset was
finished, and fail.  Due to the high variability of msleep(n) with small
n, this failure was not fully reproducible, and not apparent at all with
low CONFIG_HZ setting.

On the other hand, Peter can no longer reproduce the issue with FW643
rev8.  The read phy reg failures that happened back then may have had an
unrelated cause.  So, just revert bd972688eb24, except for the valid
comment on TSB82AA2 cards.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov
Reported-by: Jay Fenlason &lt;fenlason@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T00:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-18T16:32:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fcd46b34425da52703fe65b7f08850c509dcb0ed'/>
<id>fcd46b34425da52703fe65b7f08850c509dcb0ed</id>
<content type='text'>
This makes all of a machine's memory accessible to remote debugging via
FireWire, using the physical response unit (i.e. RDMA) of OHCI-1394 link
layer controllers.

This requires actual support by the controller.  The only ones currently
known to support it are Agere/LSI FW643.  Most if not all other OHCI-1394
controllers do not implement the optional Physical Upper Bound register.
With them, RDMA will continue to be limited to the lowermost 4 GB.

firewire-ohci's startup message in the kernel log is augmented to tell
whether the controller does expose more than 4 GB to RDMA.

While OHCI-1394 allows for a maximum Physical Upper Bound of
0xffff'0000'0000 (near 256 TB), this implementation sets it to
0x8000'0000'0000 (128 TB) in order to avoid interference with applications
that require interrupt-served asynchronous request reception at
respectively low addresses.

Note, this change does not switch remote DMA on.  It only increases the
range of remote access to all memory (instead of just 4 GB) whenever
remote DMA was switched on by other means.  The latter is achieved by
setting firewire-ohci's remote_dma parameter, or if the physical DMA
filter is opened through firewire-sbp2.

Derived from patch "firewire: Enable physical DMA above 4GB" by
Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt; from March 27, 2013.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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This makes all of a machine's memory accessible to remote debugging via
FireWire, using the physical response unit (i.e. RDMA) of OHCI-1394 link
layer controllers.

This requires actual support by the controller.  The only ones currently
known to support it are Agere/LSI FW643.  Most if not all other OHCI-1394
controllers do not implement the optional Physical Upper Bound register.
With them, RDMA will continue to be limited to the lowermost 4 GB.

firewire-ohci's startup message in the kernel log is augmented to tell
whether the controller does expose more than 4 GB to RDMA.

While OHCI-1394 allows for a maximum Physical Upper Bound of
0xffff'0000'0000 (near 256 TB), this implementation sets it to
0x8000'0000'0000 (128 TB) in order to avoid interference with applications
that require interrupt-served asynchronous request reception at
respectively low addresses.

Note, this change does not switch remote DMA on.  It only increases the
range of remote access to all memory (instead of just 4 GB) whenever
remote DMA was switched on by other means.  The latter is achieved by
setting firewire-ohci's remote_dma parameter, or if the physical DMA
filter is opened through firewire-sbp2.

Derived from patch "firewire: Enable physical DMA above 4GB" by
Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt; from March 27, 2013.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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