Re: [PATCH V5 XDMA 1/2] dmaengine: xilinx: xdma: Add xilinx xdma driver

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2022, Lizhi Hou wrote:

> 
> On 10/4/22 09:43, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2022, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> > 
> > > On 10/4/22 01:18, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Add driver to enable PCIe board which uses XDMA (the DMA/Bridge
> > > > > Subsystem
> > > > > for PCI Express). For example, Xilinx Alveo PCIe devices.
> > > > >       https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > The XDMA engine support up to 4 Host to Card (H2C) and 4 Card to Host
> > > > > (C2H)
> > > > > channels. Memory transfers are specified on a per-channel basis in
> > > > > descriptor linked lists, which the DMA fetches from host memory and
> > > > > processes. Events such as descriptor completion and errors are
> > > > > signaled
> > > > > using interrupts. The hardware detail is provided by
> > > > >       https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/pg195-pcie-dma/Introduction
> > > > > 
> > > > > This driver implements dmaengine APIs.
> > > > >       - probe the available DMA channels
> > > > >       - use dma_slave_map for channel lookup
> > > > >       - use virtual channel to manage dmaengine tx descriptors
> > > > >       - implement device_prep_slave_sg callback to handle host scatter
> > > > > gather
> > > > >         list
> > > > >       - implement device_config to config device address for DMA
> > > > > transfer
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sonal Santan <sonal.santan@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Max Zhen <max.zhen@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Brian Xu <brian.xu@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > +	*chans = devm_kzalloc(&xdev->pdev->dev, sizeof(**chans) *
> > > > > (*chan_num),
> > > > > +			      GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > > +	if (!*chans)
> > > > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < pdata->max_dma_channels; i++) {
> > > > > +		ret = xdma_read_reg(xdev, base + i * XDMA_CHAN_STRIDE,
> > > > > +				    XDMA_CHAN_IDENTIFIER,
> > > > > &identifier);
> > > > > +		if (ret) {
> > > > > +			xdma_err(xdev, "failed to read channel id:
> > > > > %d", ret);
> > > > > +			return ret;
> > > > > +		}
> > > > Is it ok to not rollback the allocation in case of an error occurs?
> > > In this loop, the failures are returned by read/write registers. The
> > > read/write register failure indicates serious hardware issue and the
> > > hardware
> > > may not be rollback in this situation.
> > What I meant is that you allocated memory above (to *chans, see above).
> > Shouldn't that memory be free in case the hw is not working before you
> > return the error from this function?
> > 
> > Check also the other returns below for the same problemx.
> 
> The memory does not need to be freed immediately. And it should not be memory
> leak because devm_* is used.

Ah, sorry. I think I checked exactly that there wasn't m in it but 
clearly there is now that I recheck.


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