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From:
Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>
Subject:
Re: iwx 64-bit dma
To:
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Cc:
Vitaliy Makkoveev <mvs@openbsd.org>, Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>, tech@openbsd.org, stsp@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:33:49 -0700

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  • Chris Cappuccio:

    iwx 64-bit dma

  • Theo de Raadt [deraadt@openbsd.org] wrote:
    > 
    > The diff in question which adds BUS_DMA_64BIT is a declaration to
    > the higher-level code that _all_ chipsets supported by this driver can
    > work with 64 bit-addressable memory if the higher levels provide it.
    > 
    
    Linux iwlwifi has a 36-bit dma limit for older hardware. For the
    AX200/201 and the AX210/211 it's 64-bit all the way. So iwx is
    doing the right thing.
    
    However, there is a bug with the AX200/201 dma engine crossing 32-bit
    boundaries:
    
    https://code.opensuse.org/kernel/kernel-source/blob/5377a688dcc5c526f0a5df6d91df22d8b4f2dce6/f/patches.suse/iwlwifi-pcie-extend-hardware-workaround-to-context-i.patch
    
    To avoid triggering it, we'd need to do something like this with
    any post-IOMMU addresses:
    
    iwx_crosses_4g_boundary(struct iwx_softc *sc, bus_addr_t addr, bus_size_t len) {
    	if (sc->sc_device_family != IWX_DEVICE_FAMILY_22000)
    		return 0;
    
    	return (addr >> 32) != ((addr + len) >> 32);
    }
    ...
    	for (i = 0; i < map->dm_nsegs; i++) {
    		if (iwx_crosses_4g_boundary(sc, map->dm_segs[i].ds_addr,
    		    map->dm_segs[i].ds_len)) {
    			/* remap */
    		}
    	}
    
    
  • Chris Cappuccio:

    iwx 64-bit dma