Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: shdma: fix a build failure on platforms with no DMA support

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On 05/31/2013 08:08 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013, Dan Murphy wrote:
>
>> On 05/30/2013 10:01 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>> On platforms with no support for the shdma dmaengine driver build is
>>> currently failing with
>>>
>>> drivers/built-in.o: In function `sh_mobile_sdhi_probe':
>>> drivers/mmc/host/sh_mobile_sdhi.c:170: undefined reference to`shdma_chan_filter'
>>>
>>> Fix the breakage by defining shdma_chan_filter to NULL in such
>>> configurations.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> v2: in "next" shdma_chan_filter() is defined in shdma-base.c, which is 
>>> built if CONFIG_SH_DMAE_BASE is defined. This version uses the correct 
>>> symbol.
>>>
>>> This is for "next." Compile-tested only. I'll test it on hardware next 
>>> week, but I don't think it shall break anything.
>>>
>>>  include/linux/sh_dma.h |    4 ++++
>>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/sh_dma.h b/include/linux/sh_dma.h
>>> index b64d6be..1fd8a20 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/sh_dma.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/sh_dma.h
>>> @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ struct sh_dmae_pdata {
>>>  #define CHCR_TE	0x00000002
>>>  #define CHCR_IE	0x00000004
>>>  
>>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SH_DMAE_BASE)
>>>  bool shdma_chan_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *arg);
>>> +#else
>>> +#define shdma_chan_filter NULL
>> OK I did not see a reply to my previous comment
>> Would this not be better as a
>> #else
>> static inline bool shdma_chan_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *arg) { return false; }
>> #endif
>>
>> Otherwise runtime will call a NULL pointer
> Have you looked at the code?:
>
> 		if (fn && !fn(chan, fn_param)) {
>
> Have you considered, when this channel allocation at all has a chance to 
> get as far as to checking the filter? Have you thought about the meaning 
> of "inline" when uing a function to assign it to a pointer? Are you sure 
> "will" is the right word here?
My consideration was that since this is an exported symbol that a driver could call this API explicitly without checking for
the function pointer first, there is a potential of calling a NULL pointer.

Dan
> Thanks
> Guennadi
>
>>> +#endif
>>>  
>>>  #endif
>>
>> -- 
>> ------------------
>> Dan Murphy
>>
> ---
> Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
> Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
> http://www.open-technology.de/


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