Re: [PATCH RESEND v5 24/24] PCI: dwc: Add DW eDMA engine support

From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Serge Semin" <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	"Gustavo Pimentel" <gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com>,
	"Vinod Koul" <vkoul@kernel.org>, "Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"Lorenzo Pieralisi" <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	"Jingoo Han" <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
	"Frank Li" <Frank.Li@nxp.com>,
	"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	"Lorenzo Pieralisi" <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
	"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@linux.com>,
	"Alexey Malahov" <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	"Pavel Parkhomenko" <Pavel.Parkhomenko@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v5 24/24] PCI: dwc: Add DW eDMA engine support
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:17:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220824181754.GA2794837@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220824181319.wkj4256a5jp2xjlp@mobilestation>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 09:13:19PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 11:51:18AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:53:32PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:

> > > +	val = dw_pcie_readl_dbi(pci, PCIE_DMA_VIEWPORT_BASE + PCIE_DMA_CTRL);
> > > +	if (val == 0xFFFFFFFF && pci->edma.reg_base) {
> > > +		pci->edma.mf = EDMA_MF_EDMA_UNROLL;
> > > +
> > > +		val = dw_pcie_readl_dma(pci, PCIE_DMA_CTRL);
> > > +	} else if (val != 0xFFFFFFFF) {
> > 
> 
> > Consider PCI_POSSIBLE_ERROR() as an annotation about the meaning of
> > 0xFFFFFFFF and something to grep for.
> 
> In this case FFs don't mean an error but a special value, which
> indicates that the eDMA is mapped via the unrolled CSRs space. The
> similar approach has been implemented for the iATU legacy/unroll setup
> auto-detection. So I don't see much reasons to have it grepped, so as
> to have a macro-based parametrization since the special value will
> unluckily change while having the explicit literal utilized gives a
> better understanding of the way the algorithm works.

If 0xFFFFFFFF is the result of a successful PCIe Memory Read, and not
something synthesized by the host bridge when it handles an
Unsupported Request completion, I'm fine with keeping it as is.