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Commit 1096d63d authored by Robert Jennings's avatar Robert Jennings Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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ibmveth: enable driver for CMO



Enable ibmveth for Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO).  For this driver
it means calculating a desired amount of IO memory based on the current MTU
and updating this value with the bus when MTU changes occur.  Because DMA
mappings can fail, we have added a bounce buffer for temporary cases where
the driver can not map IO memory for the buffer pool.

The following changes are made to enable the driver for CMO:
 * DMA mapping errors will not result in error messages if entitlement has
   been exceeded and resources were not available.
 * DMA mapping errors are handled gracefully, ibmveth_replenish_buffer_pool()
   is corrected to check the return from dma_map_single and fail gracefully.
 * The driver will have a get_desired_dma function defined to function
   in a CMO environment.
 * When the MTU is changed, the driver will update the device IO entitlement

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSantiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent ea866e65
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