Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/5] mtd: rawnand: add NVIDIA Tegra NAND Flash controller driver

[Boris Brezillon]

On Thu, 24 May 2018 13:09:53 +0200
Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 24.05.2018 10:56, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2018 10:46:27 +0200
> > Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Boris,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the initial review! One small question below:
> >>
> >> On 23.05.2018 16:18, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
> >> > Hi Stefan,
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 22 May 2018 14:07:06 +0200
> >> > Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> >> >> +
> >> >> +struct tegra_nand {
> >> >> +	void __iomem *regs;
> >> >> +	struct clk *clk;
> >> >> +	struct gpio_desc *wp_gpio;
> >> >> +
> >> >> +	struct nand_chip chip;
> >> >> +	struct device *dev;
> >> >> +
> >> >> +	struct completion command_complete;
> >> >> +	struct completion dma_complete;
> >> >> +	bool last_read_error;
> >> >> +
> >> >> +	dma_addr_t data_dma;
> >> >> +	void *data_buf;
> >> >> +	dma_addr_t oob_dma;
> >> >> +	void *oob_buf;
> >> >> +
> >> >> +	int cur_chip;
> >> >> +};  
> >> >
> >> > This struct should be split in 2 structures: one representing the NAND
> >> > controller and one representing the NAND chip:
> >> >
> >> > struct tegra_nand_controller {
> >> > 	struct nand_hw_control base;
> >> > 	void __iomem *regs;
> >> > 	struct clk *clk;
> >> > 	struct device *dev;
> >> > 	struct completion command_complete;
> >> > 	struct completion dma_complete;
> >> > 	bool last_read_error;
> >> > 	int cur_chip;
> >> > };
> >> >
> >> > struct tegra_nand {
> >> > 	struct nand_chip base;
> >> > 	dma_addr_t data_dma;
> >> > 	void *data_buf;
> >> > 	dma_addr_t oob_dma;
> >> > 	void *oob_buf;
> >> > };  
> >>
> >> Is there a particular reason why you would leave DMA buffers in the chip
> >> structure? It seems that is more a controller thing...  
> > 
> > The size of those buffers is likely to be device dependent, so if you
> > have several NANDs connected to the controller, you'll either have to
> > have one buffer at the controller level which is max(all-chip-buf-size)
> > or a buffer per device.
> > 
> > Also, do you really need these buffers? The core already provide some
> > which are suitable for DMA (chip->oob_poi and chip->data_buf).
> >   
> 
> Good question, I am not sure, that was existing code.
> 
> Are you sure data_buf it is DMA capable?
> 
> nand_scan_tail allocates with kmalloc:
> 
> chip->data_buf = kmalloc(mtd->writesize + mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL);

Yes, kmalloc() allocates DMA-able buffers, so those are DMA-safe.