Re: [PATCH 3/3] edac: altera: Add SDRAM EDAC support for CycloneV/ArriaV

[Thor Thayer]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 14:45 +0200, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:45:25AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:54:09PM +0100, tthayer@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Added EDAC support for reporting ECC errors of CycloneV
> > > and ArriaV SDRAM controller.
> > > - The SDRAM Controller registers are used by the FPGA bridge so
> > >   these are accessed through the syscon interface.
> > > - The configuration of the SDRAM memory size for the EDAC framework
> > >   is discovered from the memory node of the device tree.
> > > - Documentation of the bindings in devicetree/bindings/arm/altera/
> > >   socfpga-sdram-edac.txt
> > > - Correction of single bit errors, detection of double bit errors.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/edac/Kconfig          |    9 ++
> > >  drivers/edac/Makefile         |    2 +
> > >  drivers/edac/altera_mc_edac.c |  360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  3 files changed, 371 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 drivers/edac/altera_mc_edac.c
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > +/* Get total memory size from Open Firmware DTB */
> > > +static u32 altr_sdram_get_total_mem_size(void)
> > > +{
> > > +       struct device_node *np;
> > > +       u32 retcode, reg_array[2];
> > > +
> > > +       np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "memory");
> > > +       if (!np)
> > > +               return 0;
> > > +
> > > +       retcode = of_property_read_u32_array(np, "reg",
> > > +                                            reg_array, ARRAY_SIZE(reg_array));
> > 
> > There's no requirement that #address-cells = <1> or #size-cells = <1>,
> > even if any values in either would fit into 32 bits. If we must read
> > this from the DTB rather than elsewhere, please check
> > of_n_{addr,size}_cells.
> > 
> > Additionally, it's possible that the physical memory might be described
> > over multiple reg entries, or multiple memory nodes for some arbitrary
> > reason.
> > 
> > Can we not get this info from elsewhere rather than having to parse the
> > memory node within a driver?
> > 
> 
> It should be possible to calculate this from the dramaddrw register in the
> SDRAM controller.

Thank you all for the comments. I will look into this further.

> 
> Regards,
> Steffen
> 

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