Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] dmaengine: sf-pdma: Get number of channel by device tree

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Zong, Palmer,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 3:21 AM Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:52 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:35:28 PST (-0800), zong.li@sifive.com wrote:
> > > It currently assumes that there are always four channels, it would
> > > cause the error if there is actually less than four channels. Change
> > > that by getting number of channel from device tree.
> > >
> > > For backwards-compatible, it uses the default value (i.e. 4) when there
> > > is no 'dma-channels' information in dts.
> >
> > Some of the same wording issues here as those I pointed out in the DT
> > bindings patch.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>

> > > --- a/drivers/dma/sf-pdma/sf-pdma.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/dma/sf-pdma/sf-pdma.c
> > > @@ -482,9 +482,7 @@ static void sf_pdma_setup_chans(struct sf_pdma *pdma)
> > >  static int sf_pdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >  {
> > >       struct sf_pdma *pdma;
> > > -     struct sf_pdma_chan *chan;
> > >       struct resource *res;
> > > -     int len, chans;
> > >       int ret;
> > >       const enum dma_slave_buswidth widths =
> > >               DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_1_BYTE | DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_2_BYTES |
> > > @@ -492,13 +490,21 @@ static int sf_pdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >               DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_16_BYTES | DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_32_BYTES |
> > >               DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_64_BYTES;
> > >
> > > -     chans = PDMA_NR_CH;
> > > -     len = sizeof(*pdma) + sizeof(*chan) * chans;
> > > -     pdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +     pdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pdma), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >       if (!pdma)
> > >               return -ENOMEM;
> > >
> > > -     pdma->n_chans = chans;
> > > +     ret = of_property_read_u32(pdev->dev.of_node, "dma-channels",
> > > +                                &pdma->n_chans);
> > > +     if (ret) {
> > > +             dev_notice(&pdev->dev, "set number of channels to default value: 4\n");
> > > +             pdma->n_chans = PDMA_MAX_NR_CH;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     if (pdma->n_chans > PDMA_MAX_NR_CH) {
> > > +             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "the number of channels exceeds the maximum\n");
> > > +             return -EINVAL;
> >
> > Can we get away with just using only the number of channels the driver
> > actually supports?  ie, just never sending an op to the channels above
> > MAX_NR_CH?  That should leave us with nothing to track.

In theory we can...

> It might be a bit like when pdma->n_chans is bigger than the maximum,
> set the pdma->chans to PDMA_MAX_NR_CH, then we could ensure that we
> don't access the channels above the maximum. If I understand
> correctly, I gave the similar thought in the thread of v2 patch, and
> there are some discussions on that, but this way seems to lead to
> hard-to-track problems.

... but that would mean that when a new variant appears that supports
more channels, no error is printed, and people might not notice
immediately that the higher channels are never used.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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