[PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: rawnand: cadence: support deferred prob when DMA is not ready

[Rabara, Niravkumar L]

Hi Miquèl,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 5:52 PM
> To: Rabara, Niravkumar L <niravkumar.l.rabara at intel.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>; Vignesh Raghavendra
> <vigneshr at ti.com>; linux at treblig.org; Shen Lichuan <shenlichuan at vivo.com>;
> Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>; u.kleine-koenig at baylibre.com; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: rawnand: cadence: support deferred prob when
> DMA is not ready
> 
> 
> Typo (prob) in the title.
> 
> > From: Niravkumar L Rabara <niravkumar.l.rabara at intel.com>
> >
> > Use deferred driver probe in case the DMA driver is not probed.
> 
> Only devices are probed, not drivers.

I will fix the title and commit message in v3.
> 
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c
> > @@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ static int cadence_nand_init(struct cdns_nand_ctrl
> *cdns_ctrl)
> >  		if (!cdns_ctrl->dmac) {
> >  			dev_err(cdns_ctrl->dev,
> >  				"Unable to get a DMA channel\n");
> > -			ret = -EBUSY;
> > +			ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> 
> Does it work if there is no DMA channel provided? The bindings do not mention
> DMA channels as mandatory.
> 

The way Cadence NAND controller driver is written in such a way that it uses 
has_dma=1 as hardcoded value, indicating that slave DMA interface is connected
to DMA engine. However, it does not utilize the dedicated DMA channel information
from the device tree.

Driver works without external DMA interface i.e. has_dma=0. 
However current driver does not have a mechanism to configure it from device tree. 

> Also, wouldn't it be more pleasant to use another helper from the DMA core
> that returns a proper return code? So we now which one among -EBUSY, -
> ENODEV or -EPROBE_DEFER we get?
> 

Agree.
I will change to "dma_request_chan_by_mask" instead of "dma_request_channel "
so it can return a proper error code. 
  
		cdns_ctrl->dmac = dma_request_chan_by_mask(&mask);
		if (IS_ERR(cdns_ctrl->dmac)) {
			ret = PTR_ERR(cdns_ctrl->dmac);
			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
				dev_err(cdns_ctrl->dev,
					"Failed to get a DMA channel:%d\n",ret);
			goto disable_irq;
		}

Is this reasonable? 

Thanks,
Nirav