[PATCH 3/3] net: hisilicon: new hip04 ethernet driver

[Zhangfei Gao]

Dear Rob

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>>>> +             dma_map_single(&ndev->dev, skb->data,
>>>> +                     RX_BUF_SIZE, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>>
>>> This is incorrect.
>>>
>>> buf = buffer alloc()
>>> /* CPU owns buffer and can read/write it, device does not */
>>> dev_addr = dma_map_single(dev, buf, ..., DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>> /* Device owns buffer and can write it, CPU does not access it */
>>> dma_unmap_single(dev, dev_addr, ..., DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>> /* CPU owns buffer again and can read/write it, device does not */
>>>
>>> Please turn on DMA API debugging in the kernel debug options and verify
>>> whether your driver causes it to complain (it will.)
>>
>> Yes, you are right.
>> After change to dma_map/unmap_single, however, still get warning like
>> "DMA-API: device driver failed to check map error", not sure whether
>> it can be ignored?
>
> If it could be ignored, there would be no warning. So yes you should
> check the error. I guess correct error handling would be throwing away
> the packet.

The warning is solved via adding dma_mapping_error check after every
dma_map_single.

>
>
>>>> +             dma_map_single(&ndev->dev, buf, RX_BUF_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>>>> +             hip04_set_recv_desc(priv, virt_to_phys(buf));
>>>
>>> No need for virt_to_phys() here - dma_map_single() returns the device
>>> address.
>> Got it.
>> Use virt_to_phys since find same result come out, it should be
>> different for iommu case.
>>
>> In fact, the hardware can help to do the cache flushing, the function
>> still not be enabled now.
>> Then dma_map/unmap_single may be ignored.
>
> If you don't need cache flushing, you should setup different
> dma_map_ops for the device such as arm_coherent_dma_ops. The driver
> should always have the dma_map calls. See highbank and mvebu for
> examples.

That would be very helpful, still not sure how to enable this feature.
Could you help clarify which file.
Not find highbank and mvebu under drivers/iommu/.

Thanks