In venus_boot(), we pass a pointer to a phys_addr_t into dmam_alloc_coherent, which the compiler warns about: platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c: In function 'venus_boot': platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c:63:49: error: passing argument 3 of 'dmam_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] The returned DMA address is later passed on to a function that takes a phys_addr_t, so it's clearly wrong to use the DMA mapping interface here: the memory may be uncached, or the address may be completely wrong if there is an IOMMU connected to the device. My interpretation is that using dmam_alloc_coherent() had two purposes: a) get a chunk of consecutive memory that may be larger than the limit for kmalloc() b) use the devres infrastructure to simplify the unwinding in the error case. I think ideally we'd use a devres-based version of alloc_pages_exact() here, but since that doesn't exist, let's use devm_get_free_pages() instead. This wastes a little memory as the size gets rounded up to a power of two, but is otherwise harmless. If we want to save memory here, calling devm_free_pages() to release the memory once it is no longer needed is probably better anyway. Fixes: af2c3834c8ca ("[media] media: venus: adding core part and helper functions") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- The same problem exists in the drm driver, as of commit 7c65817e6d38 ("drm/msm: gpu: Enable zap shader for A5XX"), and I submitted the same patch for that already. --- drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c index 1b1a4f355918..76edb9f60311 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c @@ -60,11 +60,13 @@ int venus_boot(struct device *parent, struct device *fw_dev, const char *fwname) mem_size = VENUS_FW_MEM_SIZE; - mem_va = dmam_alloc_coherent(fw_dev, mem_size, &mem_phys, GFP_KERNEL); + mem_va = (void *)devm_get_free_pages(parent, GFP_KERNEL, + get_order(mem_size)); if (!mem_va) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_unreg_device; } + mem_phys = virt_to_phys(mem_va); ret = request_firmware(&mdt, fwname, fw_dev); if (ret < 0) -- 2.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html