On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:09:43AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > > However, by looking at the code, one get the feeling that the DMA > > support is somewhat prepared to be made optional. I guess it has never > > been really tested, as the Kconfig option has "depends on HAS_DMA" - > > and it's been like that as long as I can remember. > > It always worked on our "byte-banged" SPI controller, with no DMA > controller present, before Christoph's changes in this patch series, Before that nommu sh builds provided a DMA mapping implementation that even worked for the streaming side (dma_map_*), but would corrupt data if you used dma_alloc_coherent memory to communicate with the device. > and seems to be working now (although I have some other, hopefully > unrelated regressions to debug) with #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DMA around the > if (spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask) block in mmc_spi_probe. That's > probably not the right fix though -- why isn't it checking > host->dma_dev instead and only attempting DMA setup if dma_dev is > non-null? I don't think dma_dev can be NULL right now. dma_dev is assigned here: if (spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask) { struct device *dev = spi->master->dev.parent; host->dma_dev = dev; but for any OF or real bus device dma_mask never is zero (it actually is a pointer), and the value of it also is initialized to 32-bit by default, making this effectively an "if (1) {". The driver needs some way to communicate if a given device actually is DMA capable or not. Or is that purely a factor of the platform which would be a little strange. In which case we should do something like: diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c index 39bb1e30c2d722..3b0cc9a70e6432 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c @@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ static int mmc_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi) if (!host->data) goto fail_nobuf1; - if (spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask) { + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)) { struct device *dev = spi->master->dev.parent; host->dma_dev = dev;