[PATCH 3/3] drm/etnaviv: use a 32 bit mask as coherent DMA mask
Michael Walle
michael at walle.cc
Thu Aug 26 12:25:13 UTC 2021
Am 2021-08-26 14:19, schrieb Russell King (Oracle):
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 02:10:06PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>> - pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(40);
>> - pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
>> + /*
>> + * PTA and MTLB can have 40 bit base addresses, but
>> + * unfortunately, an entry in the MTLB can only point to a
>> + * 32 bit base address of a STLB. Moreover, to initialize the
>> + * MMU we need a command buffer with a 32 bit address because
>> + * without an MMU there is only an indentity mapping between
>> + * the internal 32 bit addresses and the bus addresses.
>> + *
>> + * To make things easy, we set the dma_coherent_mask to 32
>> + * bit to make sure we are allocating the command buffers and
>> + * TLBs in the lower 4 GiB address space.
>> + */
>> + if (dma_set_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(40)) ||
>> + dma_set_coherent_mask(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
>> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "No suitable DMA available\n");
>> + return -ENODEV;
>> + }
>
> This makes no sense. In the previous patch, you initialised
> pdev->dev.dma_mask ot point at the coherent mask, implying that
> it wasn't already set - for which dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
> should be used. Now you're just calling dma_set_mask(), which will
> fail if pdev->dev.dma_mask hasn't already been set to point at
> something.
>
> If it's already been initialised to point at something, then you
> shouldn't be overwriting it in the driver, and you should've used
> dma_set_mask_and_coherent() in your previous patch.
>
> Confused.
Mh, I see that moving these two lines was a bad idea. See commit
message in patch 2/3:
> Also move the dma mask assignemnts to probe() to keep all DMA related
> settings together.
The actual fix in patch 2/3 is the move of the of_dma_configure()
not the dma_mask assignments.
-michael
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