Re: [PATCH 1/3] ata: sata_dwc_460ex: use "dmas" DT property to find dma channel

From: Julian Margetson
Date: Thu Dec 17 2015 - 19:59:55 EST


On 12/17/2015 8:06 PM, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
Julian Margetson <runaway@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On 12/17/2015 3:53 PM, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
Julian Margetson <runaway@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On 12/17/2015 2:51 PM, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
Julian Margetson <runaway@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On 12/17/2015 1:59 PM, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
Julian Margetson <runaway@xxxxxxxx> writes:

I have been running my machine mostly configured for pciex1 thus with
the sata_dwc disabled.
The changes to sata_dwc-460ex do cause an oops.
I will try to give more detailed info over this weekend .
The driver as is upstream would do that since it unconditionally
dereferences a null pointer in the probe function. My patch fixes that
as a side-effect.

patching file drivers/ata/Kconfig

Hunk #1 FAILED at 296.
[...]

root@julian-VirtualBox:/usr/src/linux-3.18.25#
The patch is against 4.4-rc5.

CC drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.o

drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c:198:15: error: variable ÃâËsata_dwc_dma_dwsÃââ has initializer but incomplete type

static struct dw_dma_slave sata_dwc_dma_dws = {
^
It builds, albeit with an unrelated warning, using the attached config.
Maybe there's a missing config dependency somewhere.

I am attempting to cross compile under Ubuntu 14.04 X86 in Virtualbox
with your .config.
4.4.0-rc5 builds ok with no patches applied .
Once your patch is applied it fails to build .

CC drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.o
drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c:198:15: error: variable âsata_dwc_dma_dwsâ has initializer but incomplete type
static struct dw_dma_slave sata_dwc_dma_dws = {
^
Bizarre. This is what it looks like here:

mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ git status
On branch sata-dwc
nothing to commit, working directory clean
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ git describe
v4.4-rc5
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ sha1sum /tmp/0001-ata-sata_dwc_460ex-use-dmas-DT-property-to-find-dma-.patch
e300971aa483390f82de2e9120dc16e460e74feb /tmp/0001-ata-sata_dwc_460ex-use-dmas-DT-property-to-find-dma-.patch
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ git am /tmp/0001-ata-sata_dwc_460ex-use-dmas-DT-property-to-find-dma-.patch
Applying: ata: sata_dwc_460ex: use "dmas" DT property to find dma channel
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ sha1sum .config
4e7615b8d2fa9a1c4b4ae9ffc363aefcaf3789ca .config
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64-none-linux-gnu- oldconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64-none-linux-gnu- drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.o
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
CHK include/config/kernel.release
UPD include/config/kernel.release
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/clkdev.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/div64.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/irq_regs.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/irq_work.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/local64.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/mcs_spinlock.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/preempt.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/rwsem.h
WRAP arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/vtime.h
CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
UPD include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h
CC kernel/bounds.s
CHK include/generated/bounds.h
UPD include/generated/bounds.h
CHK include/generated/timeconst.h
UPD include/generated/timeconst.h
CC arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
CHK include/generated/asm-offsets.h
UPD include/generated/asm-offsets.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/flattree.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/fstree.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/data.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/livetree.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/treesource.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/srcpos.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/checks.o
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/util.o
SHIPPED scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.h
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.o
SHIPPED scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.c
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/dtc/dtc
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
CC scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
GEN scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
CC drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.o
drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c: In function 'dma_dwc_xfer_setup':
drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c:383:20: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
dma_addr_t addr = (dma_addr_t)&hsdev->sata_dwc_regs->dmadr;
^
mru@unicorn:/tmp/linux-sata$

Patch file and .config attached.

Looking into that warning, I doubt it works as is, but that's not caused
by my patch. I can try to come up with a fix, but again, I can't test it.

I am using

make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu-

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