Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] dmaengine: switchtec-dma: Introduce Switchtec DMA engine PCI driver

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:22:14PM +0000, Kelvin.Cao@microchip.com wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 18:42 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > > +     writew((__force u16)cpu_to_le16(SWITCHTEC_DMA_SQ_SIZE),
> > > +            &swdma_chan->mmio_chan_fw->sq_size);
> > > +     writew((__force u16)cpu_to_le16(SWITCHTEC_DMA_CQ_SIZE),
> > > +            &swdma_chan->mmio_chan_fw->cq_size);
> > 
> > This looks broken to me, writew always expects cpu endian arguments
> > and byte swaps on big endian systems.
> 
> Do you mean writew assumes the peripherals be little-endian, and will
> do the swap when host is bit-endian?

Yes.  All the standard mmio accessors ({read,write}{b,w,l,q}) do that.

> > But I find the whole pcim_iomap_table concept very confusing to the
> > reader of the driver, and given that it doesn't really use many
> > devm or pcim routines I'd suggest removing them all and sticking to
> > one well understood way of manging resource lifetimes.
> 
> I didn't get it. Do you have specific suggestion?


 - instead of pcim_enable_device call pci_enable_device, and then
   just call pci_disable_device in ->remove and on error
 - instead of pcim_iomap_regions, call pci_request_mem_regions on
   probe, and pci_release_mem_regions on release / fail, and then
   do an ioremap(pci_resource_start(pdev, 1) for the actual bar
   (and iounmap on release/fail) instead of pcim_iomap_table.

> > dma_set_mask_and_coherent for a smaller mask will never succeed when
> > trying to set it to a larger one failed.  So you can remove the
> > second
> > call here.
> 
> By default the kernel assumes the device can address 32-bit address
> space,

Yes.

> I wonder why it wouldn't allow 32-bit mask when it failes 64-
> bit?

The kernel never fails setting a 64-bit DMA mask, it only fails setting
too small masks.