From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Fisher <david.fisher1@synopsys.com>,
"Thang Q. Nguyen" <tqnguyen@apm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:04:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4985498.GT33RtioOA@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427155019.GE20646@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On Wednesday 27 April 2016 16:50:19 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 April 2016 14:59:00 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > >
> > > I would be in favour of a dma_inherit() function as well. We could hack
> > > something up in the arch code (like below) but I would rather prefer an
> > > explicit dma_inherit() call by drivers creating such devices.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> > > index ba437f090a74..ea6fb9b0e8fa 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> > > @@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ extern struct dma_map_ops dummy_dma_ops;
> > >
> > > static inline struct dma_map_ops *__generic_dma_ops(struct device *dev)
> > > {
> > > - if (dev && dev->archdata.dma_ops)
> > > - return dev->archdata.dma_ops;
> > > + while (dev) {
> > > + if (dev->archdata.dma_ops)
> > > + return dev->archdata.dma_ops;
> > > + dev = dev->parent;
> > > + }
> >
> > I think this would be a very bad idea: we don't want to have random
> > devices be able to perform DMA just because their parent devices
> > have been set up that way.
>
> I agree, it's a big hack. It would be nice to have a simpler way to do
> this in driver code rather than explicitly calling
> of_dma_configure/arch_setup_dma_ops as per the original patch in this
> thread.
>
I haven't followed the entire discussion, but what's wrong with passing
around a pointer to a 'struct device *hwdev' that represents the physical
device that does the DMA?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-25 19:21 [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev Grygorii Strashko
2016-04-26 6:17 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-26 8:14 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-04-27 5:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-27 11:55 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-04-27 13:59 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-04-27 14:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-27 15:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-04-27 16:04 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-04-27 16:53 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-27 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-27 17:59 ` Alan Stern
2016-04-27 18:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-27 20:05 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-27 21:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-28 6:37 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-28 14:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-04-28 14:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-28 14:27 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-01 22:14 ` Leo Li
2016-09-02 10:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-02 10:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-02 11:08 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-02 14:11 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-02 14:21 ` Alan Stern
2016-09-02 15:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 7:17 ` Roger Quadros
2016-09-07 8:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 13:04 ` Roger Quadros
2016-09-07 14:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-02 16:23 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-09-02 10:53 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-02 11:55 ` Robin Murphy
2016-09-02 12:56 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-02 13:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-02 22:16 ` Leo Li
2016-09-05 15:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-06 6:35 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-06 6:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-06 10:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-06 10:50 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-06 13:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 6:51 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-07 7:44 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-07 8:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 9:29 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-07 9:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-07 10:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-06 10:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 6:33 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-07 8:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 9:55 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-07 10:33 ` Robin Murphy
2016-09-07 10:47 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-14 16:31 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-09-14 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 10:24 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-07 15:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 16:08 ` Alan Stern
2016-09-07 19:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 1:15 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-08 8:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 8:03 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 8:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 8:29 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 8:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 9:43 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 10:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 11:00 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 11:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 11:20 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 11:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 11:52 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-09-08 12:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 12:02 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-09-08 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 12:28 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-08 12:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 1:37 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-08 12:59 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-09-09 1:52 ` Peter Chen
2016-09-21 11:06 ` Sriram Dash
2016-09-21 11:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-21 11:43 ` Sriram Dash
2016-09-21 12:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-22 5:02 ` Sriram Dash
2016-10-07 22:46 ` Leo Li
2016-09-21 17:14 ` [PATCH] usb: xhci: Fix the patch inherit dma configuration from kbuild test robot
2016-04-27 20:57 ` [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev Felipe Balbi
2016-04-27 14:14 ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-05-05 17:07 ` Brian Norris
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