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The intermediate result of the old term (4UL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) is 4 294 967 296 or 0x100000000 which is no problem on 64 bit systems. The patch does not change the later overall result of 0x100000 for MAX_DMA32_PFN (after it has been shifted by PAGE_SHIFT). The new calculation yields the same result, but does not require 64 bit arithmetic. On 32 bit systems the old calculation suffers from an arithmetic overflow in that intermediate term in braces: 4UL aka unsigned long int is 4 byte wide and an arithmetic overflow happens (the 0x100000000 does not fit in 4 bytes), the in braces result is truncated to zero, the following right shift does not alter that, so MAX_DMA32_PFN evaluates to 0 on 32 bit systems. That wrong value is a problem in a comparision against MAX_DMA32_PFN in the init code for swiotlb in pci_swiotlb_detect_4gb() to decide if swiotlb should be active. That comparison yields the opposite result, when compiling on 32 bit systems. This was not possible before |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.