Re: [PATCH 0/2] Follow-up patches for Cedrus v9

[Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>]

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Hi,

Le dimanche 09 septembre 2018 à 11:04 +0200, Hans Verkuil a écrit :
> On 09/08/2018 09:42 PM, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le samedi 08 septembre 2018 à 13:24 +0200, Hans Verkuil a écrit :
> > > On 09/08/2018 12:22 PM, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:06 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 09/07/2018 06:33 PM, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > > > > > This brings the requested modifications on top of version 9 of the
> > > > > > Cedrus VPU driver, that implements stateless video decoding using the
> > > > > > Request API.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Paul Kocialkowski (2):
> > > > > >   media: cedrus: Fix error reporting in request validation
> > > > > >   media: cedrus: Add TODO file with tasks to complete before unstaging
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO     |  7 +++++++
> > > > > >  drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> > > > > >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > So close...
> > > > > 
> > > > > When compiling under e.g. intel I get errors since it doesn't know about
> > > > > the sunxi_sram_claim/release function and the PHYS_PFN_OFFSET define.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is it possible to add stub functions to linux/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.h
> > > > > if CONFIG_SUNXI_SRAM is not defined? That would be the best fix for that.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The use of PHYS_PFN_OFFSET is weird: are you sure this is the right
> > > > > way? I see that drivers/of/device.c also sets dev->dma_pfn_offset, which
> > > > > makes me wonder if this information shouldn't come from the device tree.
> > > > > 
> > > > > You are the only driver that uses this define directly, which makes me
> > > > > suspicious.
> > > > 
> > > > On Allwinner platforms, some devices do DMA directly on the memory BUS
> > > > with the DRAM controller. In such cases, the DRAM has no offset. In all
> > > > other cases where the DMA goes through the common system bus and the DRAM
> > > > offset is either 0x40000000 or 0x20000000, depending on the SoC. Since the
> > > > former case is not described in the device tree (this is being worked on
> > > > by Maxime BTW), the dma_pfn_offset is not the value it should be. AFAIK
> > > > only the display and media subsystems (VPU, camera, TS) are wired this
> > > > way.
> > > > 
> > > > In drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c (the display driver) we use
> > > > PHYS_OFFSET, which is pretty much the same thing.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > OK, in that case just put #ifdef PHYS_PFN_OFFSET around that line together
> > > with a comment that this will eventually come from the device tree.
> > 
> > That seems fine, although I'm less certain about what to do for the
> > SRAM situation. Other drivers that use SUNXI_SRAM have a Kconfig select
> > on it (that Cedrus lacks). Provided that the SRAM driver builds fine
> > for non-sunxi configs, bringing-in that select would remove the need
> > for dummy functions and also ensure that the actual implementation is
> > always used on sunxi. Otherwise, there'd be a risk of having the dummy
> > functions used (if the SRAM driver is not explicitly selected in the
> > config), causing a hang when accessing the VPU.
> 
> You should certainly select this kernel config.
> 
> But the real problem seems to to be drivers/soc/Makefile where it says:
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI)       += sunxi/
> 
> I think this should be:
> 
> obj-y       += sunxi/
> 
> Now all compiles fine on i686 with the cedrus driver selecting SUNXI_SRAM.

I have just crafted a patch to the attention of Maxime to allow
building the sunxi SRAM driver without selecting the sunxi
architecture, the way you suggested.

With that, I just sent out v2 of the follow-up series for the Cedrus
driver, which should cover the build issues encountered so far.

Hopefully everything should be in order this time!

Cheers,

Paul

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