Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] pnp: restore automatic resolution of DMA conflicts

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>]

On 4/28/2013 11:15 PM, David Flater wrote:
> From: David Flater <dave@flaterco.com>
>
> To fix a 5-year-old regression, reverse the changes made in the
> following commit:
>
> commit 7ef36390fabe2168fe31f245e49eb4e5f3762622
> Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 16 23:31:07 2007 -0700
>
>      PNP: don't fail device init if no DMA channel available
>      
>      Most drivers for devices supporting ISA DMA can operate without
>      DMA as well (falling back zo PIO).  Thus it seems inappropriate
>      for PNP to fail device initialization in case none of the possible
>      DMA channels are available.  Instead, it should be left to the
>      driver to decide what to do if request_dma() fails.
>      
>      The patch at once adjusts the code to account for the fact that
>      pnp_assign_dma() now doesn't need to report failure anymore.
>
> As an example to show the problem, my sound card provides a
> prioritized list of PnP "dependent sets" of requested resources:
>
>    dependent set 0 (preferred) wants DMA 5.
>    dependent set 1 (acceptable) will take DMA 5, 6, or 7.
>    ...
>    dependent set 4 (acceptable) doesn't request a high DMA.
>
> If DMA 5 is not available, pnp_assign_dma has to fail on set 0 so that
> pnp_auto_config_dev will move on to set 1 and get DMA 6 or 7.
> Instead, pnp_assign_dma adds the resource with flags |=
> IORESOURCE_DISABLED and returns success.  pnp_auto_config_dev just
> sees success and therefore chooses set 0 with a disabled DMA and never
> tries the sets that would have resolved the conflict.
>
> Furthermore, this mode of "success" is unexpected and unhandled in
> sound/isa/sb and probably other drivers.  sb assumes that the returned
> DMA is enabled and obliviously uses the invalid DMA number.  Observed
> consequences were sb successfully grabbing a DMA that was expressly
> forbidden by the kernel parameter pnp_reserve_dma.
>
> The only upside to the original change would be as a kludge for
> devices that can operate in degraded mode without a DMA but that don't
> provide the corresponding non-preferred dependent set.  The right
> workaround for those devices is to synthesize the missing set in
> quirks.c; otherwise, you're reinventing PnP fallback functionality at
> the driver level for that device and all others.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Flater <dave@flaterco.com>
> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

OK, tentatively queued up as v3.11 material.

Thanks,
Rafael


> ---
> History
> 2013-04-28  No feedback.  Resent v2 to new maintainer and LKML.
> 2013-03-28  v2: missed a spot (add back handling of empty map as really
>              disabled).
> 2013-03-28  Orig sent to LKML and maintainers of record.
>
> This patch still applies to the current git kernel.
> The affected file was last modified 2012-12-15.
>
>   drivers/pnp/manager.c | 14 +++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pnp/manager.c b/drivers/pnp/manager.c
> index 95cebf0..9357aa7 100644
> --- a/drivers/pnp/manager.c
> +++ b/drivers/pnp/manager.c
> @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ static int pnp_assign_dma(struct pnp_dev *dev, struct pnp_dma *rule, int idx)
>   	res->start = -1;
>   	res->end = -1;
>   
> +	if (!rule->map) {
> +		res->flags |= IORESOURCE_DISABLED;
> +		pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, "  dma %d disabled\n", idx);
> +		goto __add;
> +	}
> +
>   	for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
>   		if (rule->map & (1 << xtab[i])) {
>   			res->start = res->end = xtab[i];
> @@ -218,11 +224,9 @@ static int pnp_assign_dma(struct pnp_dev *dev, struct pnp_dma *rule, int idx)
>   				goto __add;
>   		}
>   	}
> -#ifdef MAX_DMA_CHANNELS
> -	res->start = res->end = MAX_DMA_CHANNELS;
> -#endif
> -	res->flags |= IORESOURCE_DISABLED;
> -	pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, "  disable dma %d\n", idx);
> +
> +	pnp_dbg(&dev->dev, "  couldn't assign dma %d\n", idx);
> +	return -EBUSY;
>   
>   __add:
>   	pnp_add_dma_resource(dev, res->start, res->flags);

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