[PATCH] arm: edma: Fix xbar mapping
Sekhar Nori
nsekhar at ti.com
Mon Apr 14 07:14:14 PDT 2014
+ Matt with current e-mail address.
On Monday 14 April 2014 02:18 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Subject: arm: edma: Fix xbar mapping
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:44:46 +0200
>
> This is another great example of trainwreck engineering:
>
> commit 2646a0e529 (ARM: edma: Add EDMA crossbar event mux support)
> added support for using EDMA on peripherals which have no direct EDMA
> event mapping.
I committed it, so the blame goes to me (at least in part).
>
> The code compiles and does not explode in your face, but that's it.
>
> 1) Reading an u16 array from an u32 device tree array simply does not
> work. Even if the function is named "edma_of_read_u32_to_s16_array".
>
> It merily calls of_property_read_u16_array. So the resulting 16bit
> array will have every other entry = 0.
>
> 2) The DT entry for the xbar registers related to xbar has length 0x10
> instead of the real length: 0xfd0 - 0xf90 = 0x40.
>
> Not a real problem as it does not cross a page boundary, but
> wrong nevertheless.
>
> 3) But none of this matters as the mapping never happens:
>
> After reading nonsense edma_of_read_u32_to_s16_array() invalidates
> the first array entry pair, so nobody can ever notice the
> braindamage by immediate explosion.
>
> Seems the QA criteria for this code was solely not to explode when
> someone adds edma-xbar-event-map entries to the DT. Goal achieved,
> congratulations!
>
> Not really helpful if someone wants to use edma on a device which
> requires a xbar mapping.
>
> Fix the issues by:
>
> - annotating the device tree entry with "/bits/ 16" as documented in
> the of_property_read_u16_array kernel doc
>
> - make the size of the xbar register mapping correct
>
> - invalidating the end of the array and not the start
>
> This convoluted mess wants to be completely rewritten as there is no
> point to keep the xbar_chan array memory and the iomapping of the xbar
> regs around forever. Marking the xbar mapped channels as used should
> be done right there.
>
> But that's a different issue and this patch is small enough to make it
> work and allows a simple backport for stable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
This time, I tested this patch and FWIW you can add:
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
Thanks,
Sekhar
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