From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967312AbeEXLKC (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2018 07:10:02 -0400 Received: from mail.kmu-office.ch ([178.209.48.109]:36108 "EHLO mail.kmu-office.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1033020AbeEXLJz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2018 07:09:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 13:09:53 +0200 From: Stefan Agner To: Boris Brezillon Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com, marek.vasut@gmail.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, thierry.reding@gmail.com, mturquette@baylibre.com, sboyd@kernel.org, dev@lynxeye.de, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, richard@nod.at, marcel@ziswiler.com, krzk@kernel.org, digetx@gmail.com, benjamin.lindqvist@endian.se, jonathanh@nvidia.com, pdeschrijver@nvidia.com, pgaikwad@nvidia.com, mirza.krak@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/5] mtd: rawnand: add NVIDIA Tegra NAND Flash controller driver In-Reply-To: <20180524105614.3c51736c@bbrezillon> References: <86fdf19ec92b732709732fb60199f16488b4b727.1526990589.git.stefan@agner.ch> <20180523161810.0ed9fe80@bbrezillon> <2d8107f0e6568512d691e9ea25a1e4e5@agner.ch> <20180524105614.3c51736c@bbrezillon> Message-ID: <7b3cc3991fb054130fd54c6fdfec5097@agner.ch> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.4 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.10 / 15.00]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWELVE(0.00)[25]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[dt]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[100.00%]; ARC_NA(0.00)[] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24.05.2018 10:56, Boris Brezillon wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018 10:46:27 +0200 > Stefan Agner wrote: > >> Hi Boris, >> >> Thanks for the initial review! One small question below: >> >> On 23.05.2018 16:18, Boris Brezillon wrote: >> > Hi Stefan, >> > >> > On Tue, 22 May 2018 14:07:06 +0200 >> > Stefan Agner wrote: >> >> + >> >> +struct tegra_nand { >> >> + void __iomem *regs; >> >> + struct clk *clk; >> >> + struct gpio_desc *wp_gpio; >> >> + >> >> + struct nand_chip chip; >> >> + struct device *dev; >> >> + >> >> + struct completion command_complete; >> >> + struct completion dma_complete; >> >> + bool last_read_error; >> >> + >> >> + dma_addr_t data_dma; >> >> + void *data_buf; >> >> + dma_addr_t oob_dma; >> >> + void *oob_buf; >> >> + >> >> + int cur_chip; >> >> +}; >> > >> > This struct should be split in 2 structures: one representing the NAND >> > controller and one representing the NAND chip: >> > >> > struct tegra_nand_controller { >> > struct nand_hw_control base; >> > void __iomem *regs; >> > struct clk *clk; >> > struct device *dev; >> > struct completion command_complete; >> > struct completion dma_complete; >> > bool last_read_error; >> > int cur_chip; >> > }; >> > >> > struct tegra_nand { >> > struct nand_chip base; >> > dma_addr_t data_dma; >> > void *data_buf; >> > dma_addr_t oob_dma; >> > void *oob_buf; >> > }; >> >> Is there a particular reason why you would leave DMA buffers in the chip >> structure? It seems that is more a controller thing... > > The size of those buffers is likely to be device dependent, so if you > have several NANDs connected to the controller, you'll either have to > have one buffer at the controller level which is max(all-chip-buf-size) > or a buffer per device. > > Also, do you really need these buffers? The core already provide some > which are suitable for DMA (chip->oob_poi and chip->data_buf). > Good question, I am not sure, that was existing code. Are you sure data_buf it is DMA capable? nand_scan_tail allocates with kmalloc: chip->data_buf = kmalloc(mtd->writesize + mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL); -- Stefan >> >> If I move them, then struct tegra_nand would be basically empty. Can I >> just use struct nand_chip and have no driver specific chip abstraction? > > Sure.