Re: [PATCH] soc: renesas: make ARCH_R9A07G043 (riscv version) depend on NONPORTABLE

[Lad, Prabhakar]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:21 PM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Drew found "CONFIG_DMA_GLOBAL_POOL=y causes ADMA buffer alloc to fail"
> the log looks like:
> [    3.741083] mmc0: Unable to allocate ADMA buffers - falling back to standard DMA
>
> The logic is: generic riscv defconfig selects ARCH_RENESAS then
> ARCH_R9A07G043 which selects DMA_GLOBAL_POOL, which assumes all
> non-dma-coherent riscv platforms have a dma global pool, this assumption
> seems not correct. And I believe DMA_GLOBAL_POOL should not be
> selected by ARCH_SOCFAMILIY, instead, only ARCH under some specific
> conditions can select it globaly, for example NOMMU ARM and so on,
> because it's designed for special cases such as "nommu cases where
> non-cacheable memory lives in a fixed place in the physical address
> map" as pointed out by Robin.
>
> Fix the issue by making ARCH_R9A07G043 (riscv version) depend on
> NONPORTABLE, thus generic defconfig won't select ARCH_R9A07G043 by
> default. And even for random config case, there will be less debug
> effort once we see NONPORTABLE is enabled.
>
> Reported-by: Drew Fustini <dfustini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZRuamJuShOnvP1pr@x1/
> Fixes: 484861e09f3e ("soc: renesas: Kconfig: Select the required configs for RZ/Five SoC")
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/soc/renesas/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Prabhakar


> diff --git a/drivers/soc/renesas/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/renesas/Kconfig
> index 5a75ab64d1ed..12040ce116a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/renesas/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/soc/renesas/Kconfig
> @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ if RISCV
>
>  config ARCH_R9A07G043
>         bool "RISC-V Platform support for RZ/Five"
> +       depends on NONPORTABLE
>         select ARCH_RZG2L
>         select AX45MP_L2_CACHE if RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT
>         select DMA_GLOBAL_POOL
> --
> 2.40.1
>