Re: [PATCH wireless-drivers-next] bcma: get SoC device struct & copy its DMA params to the subdevices

Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:11:15 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general,gmane.linux.ports.mips.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 1/21/2019 2:11 AM, RafaB MiBecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
> 
> For bus devices to be fully usable it's required to set their DMA
> parameters.
> 
> For years it has been missing and remained unnoticed because of
> mips_dma_alloc_coherent() silently handling the empty coherent_dma_mask.
> Kernel 4.19 came with a lot of DMA changes and caused a regression on
> the 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
> 
> This change fixes above regression in addition to the MIPS bcm47xx
> commit 321c46b91550 ("MIPS: BCM47XX: Setup struct device for the SoC").
> 
> It also fixes another *old* GPIO regression caused by a parent pointing
> to the NULL:
> [    0.157054] missing gpiochip .dev parent pointer
> [    0.157287] bcma: bus0: Error registering GPIO driver: -22
> introduced by the commit 74f4e0cc6108 ("bcma: switch GPIO portions to
> use GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP").
> 
> Fixes: f8c55dc6e828 ("MIPS: use generic dma noncoherent ops for simple noncoherent platforms")
> Fixes: 74f4e0cc6108 ("bcma: switch GPIO portions to use GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP")
> Cc: linux-mips-6z/[email protected]
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
> ---
> While this patch is a regression fix, it depends on a change present in
> the wireless-drivers-next.git:
> bcma: keep a direct pointer to the struct device

Rafal, there was supposed to be a v2, but I could not find one, this is 
the regression that prevented bgmac_bcma from loading while testing 
upstream, did you have a v2 ready already to be submitted somehow?

Thanks!
-- 
Florian