Re: [PATCH] net: mvpp2: avoid bouncing buffers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 07:55:05PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Brian Brooks <brian.brooks@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 21:47:30 -0500
> 
> > @@ -5126,6 +5126,12 @@ static int mvpp2_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (priv->hw_version == MVPP22) {
> > +		/* Platform code may have set dev->dma_mask to point
> > +		 * to dev->coherent_dma_mask, but we want to ensure
> > +		 * they take different values due to comment below.
> > +		 */
> > +		pdev->dev.dma_mask = &priv->dma_mask;
> 
> The platform code might be doing this exactly because it cannot support
> different coherent and streaming DMA masks.
> 
> Well, in any case, the platform code is doing it for a reason and
> overriding this in a "driver" of all places seems totally
> inappropriate and at best a layering violation.
> 
> I would rather you fix this in a way that involves well defined APIs
> that set the DMA masks or whatever to the values that you need, rather
> than going behind the platform code's back and changing the DMA mask
> pointer like this.

Agreed.  What platform do you see this issue on?