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Commit 5acbbd42 authored by FUJITA Tomonori's avatar FUJITA Tomonori Committed by David S. Miller
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net: change illegal_highdma to use dma_mask



Robert Hancock pointed out two problems about NETIF_F_HIGHDMA:

-Many drivers only set the flag when they detect they can use 64-bit DMA,
since otherwise they could receive DMA addresses that they can't handle
(which on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB support is fatal). This means that if
64-bit support isn't available, even buffers located below 4GB will get copied
unnecessarily.

-Some drivers set the flag even though they can't actually handle 64-bit DMA,
which would mean that on platforms without IOMMU/SWIOTLB they would get a DMA
mapping error if the memory they received happened to be located above 4GB.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/3/530

We can use the dma_mask if we need bouncing or not here. Then we can
safely fix drivers that misuse NETIF_F_HIGHDMA.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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