Re: [PATCH net v3] net/mlx5: fix calling mlx5_cmd_init() before DMA mask is set

[Saeed Mahameed]

On 11 Oct 09:57, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> Since commit 06cd555f73ca ("net/mlx5: split mlx5_cmd_init() to probe and
> reload routines") mlx5_cmd_init() is called in mlx5_mdev_init() which is
> called in probe_one() before mlx5_pci_init(). This is a problem because
> mlx5_pci_init() is where the DMA and coherent mask is set but
> mlx5_cmd_init() already does a dma_alloc_coherent(). Thus a DMA
> allocation is done during probe before the correct mask is set. This
> causes probe to fail initialization of the cmdif SW structs on s390x
> after that is converted to the common dma-iommu code. This is because on
> s390x DMA addresses below 4 GiB are reserved on current machines and
> unlike the old s390x specific DMA API implementation common code
> enforces DMA masks.
>
> Fix this by moving set_dma_caps() out of mlx5_pci_init() and into
> probe_one() before mlx5_mdev_init(). To match the overall naming scheme
> rename it to mlx5_dma_init().

How about we just call mlx5_pci_init() before mlx5_mdev_init(), instead of
breaking it apart ? 
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