On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 15:57 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dne Ne 22. srpna 2010 15:22:08 Mike Rapoport napsal(a):
> > Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > Dne Ne 22. srpna 2010 13:22:40 Mike Rapoport napsal(a):
> > >> The commit 886275ce41a9751117367fb387ed171049eb6148 (param: lock
> > >> if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes)
> > >> introduced new fields into the if_sdio_card structure. It caused
> > >> missalignment of the if_sdio_card.buffer field and failure at driver
> > >>
> > >> load time:
> > >> ~# modprobe libertas_sdio
> > >> [ 62.315124] libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> > >> [ 62.319976] libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> > >> [ 63.020629] DMA misaligned error with device 48
> > >> [ 63.025207] mmci-omap-hs mmci-omap-hs.1: unexpected dma status 800
> > >> [ 66.005035] libertas: command 0x0003 timed out
> > >> [ 66.009826] libertas: Timeout submitting command 0x0003
> > >> [ 66.016296] libertas: PREP_CMD: command 0x0003 failed: -110
> > >>
> > >> Adding explicit alignment attribute for the if_sdio_card.buffer field
> > >> fixes this problem.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c | 2 +-
> > >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c
> > >> b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c index ba854c7..87b6349 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c
> > >> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ struct if_sdio_card {
> > >>
> > >> bool helper_allocated;
> > >> bool firmware_allocated;
> > >>
> > >> - u8 buffer[65536];
> > >> + u8 buffer[65536] __attribute__((aligned(4)));
> > >>
> > >> spinlock_t lock;
> > >> struct if_sdio_packet *packets;
> > >
> > > Will this work even on platforms that need some weird DMA destination
> > > address alignment ? I might be totally off with this question though ;-)
> >
> > I've tested it on PXA and OMAP and it works on both.
> > I think that on platforms with weird DMA destination address alignment
> > libertas_sdio will fail anyway because of if_sdio_packet alignment.
>
> You're right ... thanks for clearing this.
>
> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>
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