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Commit 4a367f3a authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai Committed by Jesse Barnes
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x86/PCI: fix broken ISA DMA

Rene Herman reported:

> commit 8779f2fc


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> "x86: don't try to allocate from DMA zone at first"
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> breaks all of ISA DMA. Or all of ALSA ISA DMA at least. All
> ISA soundcards are silent following that commit -- no error
> messages, everything appears fine, just silence.

That patch is buggy. We had an implicit assumption that
dev = NULL for ISA devices that require 24bit DMA.

The recent work on x86 dma_alloc_coherent() breaks the ISA DMA buffer
allocation, which is represented by "dev = NULL" and requires 24bit
DMA implicitly.

Bisected-by: default avatarRene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
parent 21e2b0a5
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