dev: Stop using the OS page size in the IDE controller.
This size was used to break up DMA transactions so that a single
transaction would not cross a page boundary. This was because on Alpha,
there was an actual page table which translated between PCI and DMA
address spaces. On all currently implemented systems, the mapping is
simply to add a scalar offset, so it's not possible for a legal region
of memory to be contiguous in one space but not in the other.
Additionally, if it *was* possible for there to be a mismatch, it was
only coincidence that Alpha used a page table which had the same sized
pages as it normally used. There is no requirement that there even would
be fixed sized pages in the first place.
To avoid this artificial dependency between the IDE controller and the
ISA, this change simply changes the chunk size for DMA accesses to 4K.
That's the page size at least on x86 and probably other architectures,
and will be a pretty close approximation of the previous behavior.
It's possible that even having this chunking in the first place is
unnecessary and functionally useless, but there are some checks which
happen between chunks, and changing how big they are would change the
frequency of those checks. For instance, the controller/disk may not
notice in the same amount of time if a DMA was cancelled somehow.
Change-Id: I1ec840d1f158c3faa31ba0184458b69bf654c252
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34178
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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