Hello,
The patch below works. I compiled the RC4 of kernel 5.4 with this patch today and the onboard SD card works without any problems.
Thanks!
Christian
> On 23. Oct 2019, at 07:42, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:12:49PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>> Hello Russell,
>>>
>>> You asked me about "dma-coherent" in the Cyrus device tree. Unfortunately I
>>> don't find the property "dma-coherent" in the dtb source files.
>>>
>>> Output of "fdtdump cyrus_p5020_eth_poweroff.dtb | grep dma":
>>>
>>> dma0 = "/soc@ffe000000/dma@100300";
>>> dma1 = "/soc@ffe000000/dma@101300";
>>> dma@100300 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma";
>>> dma-channel@0 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@80 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@100 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@180 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma@101300 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma";
>>> dma-channel@0 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@80 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@100 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>> dma-channel@180 {
>>> compatible = "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel";
>>
>> Hmm, so it looks like PowerPC doesn't mark devices that are dma
>> coherent with a property that describes them as such.
>>
>> I think this opens a wider question - what should of_dma_is_coherent()
>> return for PowerPC? It seems right now that it returns false for
>> devices that are DMA coherent, which seems to me to be a recipe for
>> future mistakes.
>
> Right, it seems of_dma_is_coherent() has baked in the assumption that
> devices are non-coherent unless explicitly marked as coherent.
>
> Which is wrong on all or at least most existing powerpc systems
> according to Ben.
>
>> Any ideas from the PPC maintainers?
>
> Fixing it at the source seems like the best option to prevent future
> breakage.
>
> So I guess that would mean making of_dma_is_coherent() return true/false
> based on CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE on powerpc.
>
> We could do it like below, which would still allow the dma-coherent
> property to work if it ever makes sense on a future powerpc platform.
>
> I don't really know any of this embedded stuff well, so happy to take
> other suggestions on how to handle this mess.
>
> cheers
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> index 25aaa3903000..b96c9010acb6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> @@ -760,6 +760,22 @@ static int __init check_cache_coherency(void)
> late_initcall(check_cache_coherency);
> #endif /* CONFIG_CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY */
>
> +#ifndef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
> +/*
> + * For historical reasons powerpc kernels are built with hard wired knowledge of
> + * whether or not DMA accesses are cache coherent. Additionally device trees on
> + * powerpc do not typically support the dma-coherent property.
> + *
> + * So when we know that DMA is coherent, override arch_of_dma_is_coherent() to
> + * tell the drivers/of code that all devices are coherent regardless of whether
> + * they have a dma-coherent property.
> + */
> +bool arch_of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
> +{
> + return true;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> struct dentry *powerpc_debugfs_root;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(powerpc_debugfs_root);
> diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
> index 978427a9d5e6..3a4b2949a322 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/address.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
> @@ -993,6 +993,14 @@ int of_dma_get_range(struct device_node *np, u64 *dma_addr, u64 *paddr, u64 *siz
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_get_range);
>
> +/*
> + * arch_of_dma_is_coherent - Arch hook to determine if device is coherent for DMA
> + */
> +bool __weak arch_of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * of_dma_is_coherent - Check if device is coherent
> * @np: device node
> @@ -1002,8 +1010,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_dma_get_range);
> */
> bool of_dma_is_coherent(struct device_node *np)
> {
> - struct device_node *node = of_node_get(np);
> + struct device_node *node;
> +
> + if (arch_of_dma_is_coherent(np))
> + return true;
>
> + np = of_node_get(np);
> while (node) {
> if (of_property_read_bool(node, "dma-coherent")) {
> of_node_put(node);
