Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: remove an unused property dma-ranges

["Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>]

On 2020/10/14 21:36, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020/10/14 15:38, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:15 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2020 11:06 PM, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>>> stingray-usb.dtsi is finally included by three dts files:
>>>> bcm958802a802x.dts, bcm958742k.dts and bcm958742t.dts. I searched all
>>>> these three entire expanded dts files, and each of them contains only one
>>>> dma-ranges. No conversion range is specified, so it cannot work properly.
>>>> I think this property "dma-ranges" is added by mistake, just remove it.
>>>> Otherwise, the following error will be reported when any YAML detection
>>>> is performed on arm64.
>>>>
>>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/stingray/stingray-usb.dtsi:7.3-14: Warning \
>>>> (dma_ranges_format): /usb:dma-ranges: empty "dma-ranges" property but \
>>>> its #address-cells (1) differs from / (2)
>>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/stingray/stingray-usb.dtsi:7.3-14: Warning \
>>>> (dma_ranges_format): /usb:dma-ranges: empty "dma-ranges" property but \
>>>> its #size-cells (1) differs from / (2)
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
>>>
>>> This looks fine to me, Scott, Ray do you want to Ack this patch before I
>>> take it?
>>
>> Does it mean that there are no devices on this bus that can do DMA?
>>
>> Usually there should be a dma-ranges property to identify that DMA
>> is possible and what the limits are, though we have failed to enforce
>> that.
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/iommu.txt +79
> When an "iommus" property is specified in a device tree node, the IOMMU will
> be used for address translation. If a "dma-ranges" property exists in the
> device's parent node it will be ignored. An exception to this rule is if the
> referenced IOMMU is disabled, in which case the "dma-ranges" property of the
> parent shall take effect.
> 
> The dma-ranges is only required by IOMMU disabled case. And should exist in
> the parent node of IOMMU device. But this deleted dma-ranges is under the usb
> bus node.
> 
>>
>> Also note that the #address-cells=<1> means that any device under
>> this bus is assumed to only support 32-bit addressing, and DMA will
>> have to go through a slow swiotlb in the absence of an IOMMU.
> 
> The dma_alloc_coherent() will allocate memory with GFP_DMA32 flag and
> try the 0-4G first. The reserved swiotlb buffer memory is used only
> when the allocation failed.

----- Sorry, my mistake, please ignore the following.

> 
>  memory@80000000:
>     device_type: ["memory"]
>     reg: [[0x0, 0x80000000, 0x0, 0x80000000], [0x8, 0x80000000, 0x1, 0x80000000]]
> 
> If this is the actual physical memory size, the #address-cells should be set to <1>.
> 
>>
>>       Arnd
>>
>> .
>>