Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] usb: make xhci platform driver use 64 bit or 32 bit DMA

From: Duc Dang
Date: Wed Aug 19 2015 - 17:29:10 EST


On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 08 August 2015 13:31:02 Duc Dang wrote:
> > >
> > > If we know that pdev->dev.dma_mask will always be initialised at this
> > > point, then the above change is fine. If not, it's introducing a
> > > regression - dma_set_mask_and_coherent() will fail if pdev->dev.dma_mask
> > > is NULL (depending on the architectures implementation of dma_set_mask()).
> > >
> > > Prefixing the above change with the two lines I mention above would
> > > ensure equivalent behaviour. Even if we do want to get rid of this,
> > > I'd advise to do it as a separate patch after this change, which can
> > > be independently reverted if there's problems with its removal.
> > >
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > I will add the 2 lines you mentioned back to next version of the
> > patch. It is safer to do it that way as I do not see
> > pdev->dev.dma_mask gets initialized before the call
> > dma_set_mask_and_coherent inside this xhci_plat.c file.
>
> It would be good to add a WARN_ON() to the case where dma_mask
> is a NULL pointer at the least. That way, we will at least
> find out if there are some broken platforms that do not correctly
> initialize the mask pointer.

Hi Arnd,

So the check will look like this, please let me know what do you think:
if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask) {
WARN_ON(1);
/* Initialize dma_mask if the broken platform code has
not done so */
pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
}

>
> Arnd




--
Regards,
Duc Dang.
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