Re: [PATCH V2 mips-fixes] MIPS: BCM47XX: Setup struct device for the SoC

Re: [PATCH V2 mips-fixes] MIPS: BCM47XX: Setup struct device for the SoC

[Paul Burton]

Hello,

Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> So far we never had any device registered for the SoC. This resulted in
> some small issues that we kept ignoring like:
> 1) Not working GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP (gpiochip_irqchip_add_key() failing)
> 2) Lack of proper tree in the /sys/devices/
> 3) mips_dma_alloc_coherent() silently handling empty coherent_dma_mask
> 
> Kernel 4.19 came with a lot of DMA changes and caused a regression on
> bcm47xx. Starting with the commit f8c55dc6e828 ("MIPS: use generic dma
> noncoherent ops for simple noncoherent platforms") DMA coherent
> allocations just fail. Example:
> [    1.114914] bgmac_bcma bcma0:2: Allocation of TX ring 0x200 failed
> [    1.121215] bgmac_bcma bcma0:2: Unable to alloc memory for DMA
> [    1.127626] bgmac_bcma: probe of bcma0:2 failed with error -12
> [    1.133838] bgmac_bcma: Broadcom 47xx GBit MAC driver loaded
> 
> The bgmac driver also triggers a WARNING:
> [    0.959486] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.964387] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at ./include/linux/dma-mapping.h:516 bgmac_enet_probe+0x1b4/0x5c4
> [    0.973751] Modules linked in:
> [    0.976913] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.9 #0
> [    0.982750] Stack : 804a0000 804597c4 00000000 00000000 80458fd8 8381bc2c 838282d4 80481a47
> [    0.991367]         8042e3ec 00000001 804d38f0 00000204 83980000 00000065 8381bbe0 6f55b24f
> [    0.999975]         00000000 00000000 80520000 00002018 00000000 00000075 00000007 00000000
> [    1.008583]         00000000 80480000 000ee811 00000000 00000000 00000000 80432c00 80248db8
> [    1.017196]         00000009 00000204 83980000 803ad7b0 00000000 801feeec 00000000 804d0000
> [    1.025804]         ...
> [    1.028325] Call Trace:
> [    1.030875] [<8000aef8>] show_stack+0x58/0x100
> [    1.035513] [<8001f8b4>] __warn+0xe4/0x118
> [    1.039708] [<8001f9a4>] warn_slowpath_null+0x48/0x64
> [    1.044935] [<80248db8>] bgmac_enet_probe+0x1b4/0x5c4
> [    1.050101] [<802498e0>] bgmac_probe+0x558/0x590
> [    1.054906] [<80252fd0>] bcma_device_probe+0x38/0x70
> [    1.060017] [<8020e1e8>] really_probe+0x170/0x2e8
> [    1.064891] [<8020e714>] __driver_attach+0xa4/0xec
> [    1.069784] [<8020c1e0>] bus_for_each_dev+0x58/0xb0
> [    1.074833] [<8020d590>] bus_add_driver+0xf8/0x218
> [    1.079731] [<8020ef24>] driver_register+0xcc/0x11c
> [    1.084804] [<804b54cc>] bgmac_init+0x1c/0x44
> [    1.089258] [<8000121c>] do_one_initcall+0x7c/0x1a0
> [    1.094343] [<804a1d34>] kernel_init_freeable+0x150/0x218
> [    1.099886] [<803a082c>] kernel_init+0x10/0x104
> [    1.104583] [<80005878>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
> [    1.110107] ---[ end trace f441c0d873d1fb5b ]---
> 
> This patch setups a "struct device" (and passes it to the bcma) which
> allows fixing all the mentioned problems. It'll also require a tiny bcma
> patch which will follow through the wireless tree & its maintainer.
> 
> Fixes: f8c55dc6e828 ("MIPS: use generic dma noncoherent ops for simple noncoherent platforms")
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

Applied to mips-fixes.

Thanks,
    Paul

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