Re: [PATCH 01/14] dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Avoid hardcoding number of channels

[Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>]

Le sam. 7 juil. 2018 à 9:34, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan 
<prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On 5 July 2018 at 23:56, Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote:
>>  Hi PrasannaKumar,
>> 
>> 
>>>  Hi Paul,
>>> 
>>>  On 3 July 2018 at 18:02, Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   As part of the work to support various other Ingenic JZ47xx SoC
>>>>  versions,
>>>>   which don't feature the same number of DMA channels per core, we 
>>>> now
>>>>   deduce the number of DMA channels available from the devicetree
>>>>   compatible string.
>>>> 
>>>>   Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>>>>   ---
>>>>    drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c | 53 
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>>>    1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>> 
>>>>   diff --git a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
>>>>   index 85820a2d69d4..b40f491f0367 100644
>>>>   --- a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
>>>>   +++ b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
>>>>   @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>>>>    #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>>>>    #include <linux/module.h>
>>>>    #include <linux/of.h>
>>>>   +#include <linux/of_device.h>
>>>>    #include <linux/of_dma.h>
>>>>    #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>>>>    #include <linux/slab.h>
>>>>   @@ -23,8 +24,6 @@
>>>>    #include "dmaengine.h"
>>>>    #include "virt-dma.h"
>>>> 
>>>>   -#define JZ_DMA_NR_CHANNELS     32
>>>>   -
>>>>    /* Global registers. */
>>>>    #define JZ_DMA_REG_DMAC                0x1000
>>>>    #define JZ_DMA_REG_DIRQP       0x1004
>>>>   @@ -135,14 +134,20 @@ struct jz4780_dma_chan {
>>>>           unsigned int curr_hwdesc;
>>>>    };
>>>> 
>>>>   +enum jz_version {
>>>>   +       ID_JZ4780,
>>>>   +};
>>>>   +
>>>>    struct jz4780_dma_dev {
>>>>           struct dma_device dma_device;
>>>>           void __iomem *base;
>>>>           struct clk *clk;
>>>>           unsigned int irq;
>>>>   +       unsigned int nb_channels;
>>>>   +       enum jz_version version;
>>>> 
>>>>           uint32_t chan_reserved;
>>>>   -       struct jz4780_dma_chan chan[JZ_DMA_NR_CHANNELS];
>>>>   +       struct jz4780_dma_chan chan[];
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Looks like a variable length array in struct. I think there is some
>>>  effort to remove the usage of VLA. Can you revisit this? I may be
>>>  wrong, please feel free to correct.
>> 
>> 
>>  Are you sure? It's the first time I hear about it.
>>  Could anybody confirm?
> 
> Please see [1] for info.
> 
> Variable Length Arrays in struct is expressly forbidden in C99, C11.
> Clang does not support it. To make kernel compile with Clang few
> people are trying to remove/reduce VLAIS usage.
> 
> 1. 
> https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1221/original/VLAIS.pdf

I read it, and my structure is not a VLAIS; my "chan" array is a 
flexible
array, its sizeof() is 0, so the sizeof() of the structure is constant.

See page 6 of the PDF, about alternatives to VLAIS:
"If possible use a flexible array member and move the array to the end 
of
the struct"
Which is what I am doing here.

-Paul