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From: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: Correct way to set coherent_dma_mask on a non-pci device?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:38:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48764911.50409@cortland.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807081955.47594.mb@bu3sch.de>

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Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2008 19:40:06 Steve Brown wrote:
>   
>> There appears to be no function like pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to set 
>> the coherent mask for a non-pci device.
>>
>> What is the "proper" way to set it?
>>
>> The context for the question is a recent change to ssb_dma_set_mask() in 
>> drivers/ssb/main.c that removed the somewhat fragile, direct 
>> manipulation of dma_mask and coherent_dma_mask in favor of a call to 
>> dma_set_mask().
>>     
>
> Note that SSB devices use the dma_*** API for doing DMA remappings.
> So it uses dma_set_mask() for setting the mask.
>
>   
I can't find any dma_*** routine that references coherent_dma_mask. It 
looks like dma_set_mask() doesn't handle the case where the device 
doesn't support coherent dma (CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT=y).

Would this be the correct patch to handle that case?
 
Steve


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diff --git a/include/asm-mips/dma-mapping.h b/include/asm-mips/dma-mapping.h
index 230b3f1..8da4107 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/dma-mapping.h
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_DMA_MAPPING_H
 #define _ASM_DMA_MAPPING_H
 
-#include <asm/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
+#include <dma-coherence.h>
 
 void *dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 			   dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag);
@@ -48,7 +49,11 @@ extern int dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask);
 static inline int
 dma_set_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
 {
-	if(!dev->dma_mask || !dma_supported(dev, mask))
+	if(!dma_supported(dev, mask))
+		return -EIO;
+	if(!plat_device_is_coherent(dev))
+		dev->dma_mask = &dev->coherent_dma_mask;
+	if(!dev->dma_mask)
 		return -EIO;
 
 	*dev->dma_mask = mask;

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08 17:40 Correct way to set coherent_dma_mask on a non-pci device? Steve Brown
2008-07-08 17:55 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-10 17:38   ` Steve Brown [this message]

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