Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] sh: dma: Correct the number of DMA channels in SH7709

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

Sorry for being so late to the party.

On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 11:16 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Artur,
> 
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 6:45 PM Artur Rojek <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > According to the hardware manual [1], the DMAC found in SH7709 features
> > only 4 channels.
> > 
> > While at it, also sort the existing targets and clarify that
> > NR_ONCHIP_DMA_CHANNELS must be a multiply of two.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/mah/sh7709s-group-hardware-manual (p. 373)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Artur Rojek <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > v2: - sort existing targets
> 
> Thanks for the update!
> 
> >     - clarify that the value must be a multiply of two
> 
> That's only true when there are two DMACs, right?
> 
> Even in that case, you could mitigate that by avoiding the division by
> 
>     #ifdef SH_DMAC_BASE1
>    -#define        SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH        (CONFIG_NR_ONCHIP_DMA_CHANNELS / 2)
>    +#define        SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH        6
>     #else
>     #define        SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH        CONFIG_NR_ONCHIP_DMA_CHANNELS
>     #endif

Aren't we dropping SH_DMAC_BASE1 in the other patch anyway?

> That is actually safer, as the user can override NR_ONCHIP_DMA_CHANNELS
> when configuring his kernel, thus breaking DMA  due to an incorrect
> value of SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH.
> 
> Unfortunately we cannot protect against that when using a single DMAC,
> as SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH can be either 4, 6, or 8.
> 
> Perhaps this configuration should be moved from Kconfig to <cpu/dma.h>,
> to protect against a user overriding this value?

Isn't SH_DMAC_NR_MD_CH already hardwired to the SoC being used?

Adrian

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