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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 11:16:35 +0200
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
To:     Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: onenand: omap2: Disable DMA for HIGHMEM buffers
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On Wed, 2 May 2018 10:06:36 +0200
Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> (and apologies for delay)
> 
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:01:34PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Hi Ladislav,
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:52:59 +0200
> > Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > dma_map_single doesn't get the proper DMA address for vmalloced area,  
> > 
> > That's not true, it returns the right DMA (physical) address, it's just
> > that:  
> 
> To be honest I used log message from commit dcf08227e964 which is dealing
> with the same issue.

Okay, looks like I was wrong. The problem is caused by the
virt_to_page() call done in dma_map_single_attrs() which expects a
valid virtual address (one that is present in the identity mapping). If
you pass a vmalloc address to it, the conversion is broken and that's
probably why you end up with a NULL pointer exception.

Maybe you should just say that dma_map_single() does not work for
vmalloc-ed buffers instead of saying that it does not get the right DMA
address.