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