Re: [PATCH v3 02/16] mfd: mfd-core: Don't overwrite the dma_mask of the child device

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On 2020-04-28 3:29 pm, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2020-04-28 1:45 pm, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 07:45:29PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
Commit cdfee5623290 ("driver core: initialize a default DMA mask for
platform device") initialize the DMA of a platform device. But if the
parent doesn't have a dma_mask set, for example if it's an I2C device,
the dma_mask of the child platform device will be set to zero again.
Which leads to many "DMA mask not set" warnings, if the MFD cell has the
of_compatible property set.

I'm wondering why parent doesn't have it.

Because the parent isn't on a DMA-capable bus, and thus really shouldn't
have a valid DMA configuration ever.

Then how come a child is DMA capable?

Because it's a platform device, and thanks to decades of legacy we have to assume that any platform devices *is* DMA capable.

MFD takes a physical device node as a
parent and creates one of several children with that device as a parent. DMA
mask is a property of the device which *does DMA*. Obviously a child is not
correct device for that.

Where am I mistaken?

In theory you're not, however in practice the driver model doesn't really give us a nice way to express the necessary subtle distinctions between this and other similar-looking but fundamentally different parent-child relationships - if it did, we probably wouldn't need the whole MFD layer in the first place. The logical ideal would be to create the children on the same bus as the parent, but as it is doing that would likely lead to the I2C/SPI/whatever bus code assuming they are first-class devices and open up a whole new world of problems.

For better or worse, the platform bus is the dumping ground for random crap, so we just have to deal with all the abstraction breakage that leaks out of that.

Robin.

I remember we have explicit patches in the past for buses such as PCI and AMBA
to set default DMA mask for all physical devices on the respective bus, of
course they can individually override it later.

So, this seems to me a paper over the real issue (absence of default DMA mask
where it's needed) and devices should explicitly define it if they disagree
with default.

If I'm wrong, you really need elaborate commit message much better.

The problem here is that MFD children are created as platform devices
(regardless of what their parent is) and assigned an of_node, at which point
they look pretty much indistinguishable from SoC devices created by the
of_platform code, that *do* have to be assumed to be DMA-capable to prevent
~90% of existing devicetrees from breaking.

Of course the real fundamental issue is the platform bus itself, but it's
way too late to fix that :(

I don't think it's an issue, rather in model you are describing. Or I miss
something not so obvious.




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