Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] SOC: brcmstb: add memory API

From: Jim Quinlan
Date: Tue Dec 12 2017 - 15:53:37 EST


On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 05:12:05PM -0500, Jim Quinlan wrote:
>> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This commit adds a memory API suitable for ascertaining the sizes of
>> each of the N memory controllers in a Broadcom STB chip. Its first
>> user will be the Broadcom STB PCIe root complex driver, which needs
>> to know these sizes to properly set up DMA mappings for inbound
>> regions.
>>
>> We cannot use memblock here or anything like what Linux provides
>> because it collapses adjacent regions within a larger block, and here
>> we actually need per-memory controller addresses and sizes, which is
>> why we resort to manual DT parsing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/Makefile | 2 +-
>> drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/memory.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/soc/brcmstb/memory_api.h | 25 ++++++
>> 3 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/memory.c
>> create mode 100644 include/soc/brcmstb/memory_api.h
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/Makefile b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/Makefile
>> index 9120b27..4cea7b6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/Makefile
>> @@ -1 +1 @@
>> -obj-y += common.o biuctrl.o
>> +obj-y += common.o biuctrl.o memory.o
>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/memory.c b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/memory.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..eb647ad9
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/memory.c
>
> I sort of assume based on [1] that every new file should have an SPDX
> identifier ("The Linux kernel requires the precise SPDX identifier in
> all source files") and that the actual text of the GPL can be omitted.
>
> Only a few files in drivers/pci currently have an SPDX identifier. I
> don't know if that's oversight or work-in-progress or what.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204212120.484179273@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Bjorn, Did you get a chance to review the other commits of this
submission (V3)? I would like any additional feedback before I send
out a V4 with SPDX fixes. Thanks, JimQ

>> @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright  2015-2017 Broadcom
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + * A copy of the GPL is available at
>> + * http://www.broadcom.com/licenses/GPLv2.php or from the Free Software
>> + * Foundation at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .