Re: [PATCH 09/10] sh: don't allow non-coherent DMA for NOMMU

[Ulf Hansson]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 06:24, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:11:53PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > This change broke SD card support on J2 because MMC_SPI spuriously
> > > depends on HAS_DMA. It looks like it can be fixed just by removing
> > > that dependency from drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig.
> >
> > It can't. mmp_spi_probe fails with ENOMEM, probably due to trying to
> > do some DMA setup thing that's not going to be needed if the
> > underlying SPI device doesn't support/use DMA.
>
> Adding the linux-mmc and linux-spi lists, as that seems pretty odd.

The mmc_spi driver needs modernizations, so I am not surprised to see
odd things.

My guess is that in ->probe() we check "if
(spi->master->dev.parent->dma_mask)" - > and runs dma_map*()
operations, which fails and leads to bailing out of ->probe() to
return an error code.

However, by looking at the code, one get the feeling that the DMA
support is somewhat prepared to be made optional. I guess it has never
been really tested, as the Kconfig option has "depends on HAS_DMA"  -
and it's been like that as long as I can remember.

Kind regards
Uffe