Re: [PATCH v3] dmaengine: xgene-dma: Fix sparse wannings and coccinelle warnings

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Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 17 April 2015 01:01:13 Rameshwar Prasad Sahu wrote:
>> v3 changes:
>>       * Minor changes in length setting in DMA descriptor
>>
>> v2 changes:
>>       * Code cleanup
>>       * Changed way of setting DMA descriptors for big-endian
>>
>> This patch fixes compilation sparse warnings like incorrect type in assignment
>> (different base types), cast to restricted __le64, symbol
>> '__UNIQUE_ID_author__COUNTER__' has multiple initializers etc and
>> coccinelle warnings (No need to set .owner here. The core will do it.)
>>
>> This patch is based on slave-dma / for-linus branch.
>> (commit: 9f2fd0dfa594d857fbdaeda523ff7a46f16567f5 [26/28]
>>       dmaengine: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC DMA engine driver)
>>
>> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@xxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good now,
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> There is one small enhancement that you could still do and I'll shut up after
> that ;-)
>
>>
>> -static void *xgene_dma_lookup_ext8(u64 *desc, int idx)
>> +static __le64 *xgene_dma_lookup_ext8(struct xgene_dma_desc_hw *desc, int idx)
>>  {
>> -     return (idx % 2) ? (desc + idx - 1) : (desc + idx + 1);
>> +     switch (idx) {
>> +     case 0:
>> +             return &desc->m1;
>> +     case 1:
>> +             return &desc->m0;
>> +     case 2:
>> +             return &desc->m3;
>> +     case 3:
>> +             return &desc->m2;
>> +     default:
>> +             pr_err("Invalid dma descriptor index\n");
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     return NULL;
>>  }
>>
> ...
>
>>       /* Set 1st to 5th source addresses */
>>       for (i = 0; i < src_cnt; i++) {
>>               len = *nbytes;
>> -             xgene_dma_set_src_buffer((i == 0) ? (desc1 + 8) :
>> +             xgene_dma_set_src_buffer((i == 0) ? &desc1->m1 :
>>                                        xgene_dma_lookup_ext8(desc2, i - 1),
>>                                        &len, &src[i]);
>> -             XGENE_DMA_DESC_MULTI_SET(desc1, scf[i], i);
>> +             desc1->m2 |= cpu_to_le64((scf[i] << ((i + 1) * 8)));
>>       }
>
> If you just unroll this loop, you get code that is smaller and easier to
> understand:
>
>         /* Set 1st to 5th source addresses */
>         xgene_dma_set_src_buffer(&desc1->m1, &len, &src[0]);
>         xgene_dma_set_src_buffer(&desc2->m0, &len, &src[1]);
>         xgene_dma_set_src_buffer(&desc2->m3, &len, &src[2]);
>         xgene_dma_set_src_buffer(&desc2->m2, &len, &src[3]);
>         desc1->m2 |= cpu_to_le64(scf[0] | scf[1] << 8 | scf[2] << 16 | scf[3] << 24);

Actually here, in run time src_cnt value can be 2 or 3 upto 5, so we
can't unroll it.


>
>         Arnd
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