[PATCH v9 0/5] staging: vc04_services: vchiq: Register devices with a custom bus_type

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Thu Jul 20 09:16:58 PDT 2023


Hi Umang,

Am 20.07.23 um 14:08 schrieb Umang Jain:
> Hi Stefan ,
> 
> 
> On 7/19/23 11:05 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>> Hi Umang,
>>
>> Am 19.07.23 um 18:54 schrieb Umang Jain:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> One comment,
>>>
>>> On 7/19/23 10:14 PM, Umang Jain wrote:
>>>> The patch series added a new bus type vchiq_bus_type and registers
>>>> child devices in order to move them away from using platform
>>>> device/driver.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 1/5 and 2/5 adds a new bus_type and registers them to vchiq
>>>> interface
>>>>
>>>> Patch 3/5 and 4/5 moves the bcm2835-camera and bcm2835-audio
>>>> to the new bus respectively
>>>>
>>>> Patch 5/5 removes a platform registeration helper which is no
>>>> longer required.
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v9:
>>>> - Fix module autoloading
>>>
>>> While the autoloading of bcm2835-audio, bcm2835-camera is fixed as 
>>> part of this series, there is one WARN coming in when bcm2835-audio 
>>> is loaded regarding dma_alloc_attr
>>>
>>> dmesg output: https://paste.debian.net/plain/1286359
>>
>> is it possible that after your patch series no DMA mask like 
>> DMA_BIT_MASK(32) is provided?
> 
> I am trying to set DMA_BIT_MASK(32) via  dma_set_mask_and_coherent() but 
> it fails with -EIO

what happens if you assign DMA_BIT_MASK(32) to device->dev.dma_mask 
within vchiq_device_register()?

>>
>>>
>>> I am investigating further...
>>>> - Implement bus_type's probe() callback to load drivers
>>>> - Implement bus_type's uevent() to make sure appropriate drivers are
>>>>    loaded when device are registed from vchiq.
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v8:
>>>> - Drop dual licensing. Instead use GPL-2.0 only for patch 1/5
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v7:
>>>> (5 out of 6 patches from v6 merged)
>>>> - Split the main patch (6/6) as requested.
>>>> - Use struct vchiq_device * instead of struct device * in
>>>>    all bus functions.
>>>> - Drop additional name attribute displayed in sysfs (redundant info)
>>>> - Document vchiq_interface doesn't enumerate device discovery
>>>> - remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vchiq_bus_type)
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v6:
>>>> - Split struct device and struct driver wrappers in vchiq_device.[ch]
>>>> - Move vchiq_bus_type definition to vchiq_device.[ch] as well
>>>> - return error on bus_register() failure
>>>> - drop dma_set_mask_and_coherent
>>>> - trivial variable name change
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v5:
>>>> - Fixup missing "staging: " in commits' subject line
>>>> - No code changes from v4
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v4:
>>>> - Introduce patches to drop include directives from Makefile
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>> - Rework entirely to replace platform devices/driver model
>>>>
>>>> -v2:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221222191500.515795-1-umang.jain@ideasonboard.com/
>>>>
>>>> -v1:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221220084404.19280-1-umang.jain@ideasonboard.com/
>>>>
>>>> Umang Jain (5):
>>>>    staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Add new bus type and device type
>>>>    staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Register vchiq_bus_type
>>>>    staging: bcm2835-camera: Register bcm2835-camera with vchiq_bus_type
>>>>    staging: bcm2835-audio: Register bcm2835-audio with vchiq_bus_type
>>>>    staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Remove vchiq_register_child()
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/staging/vc04_services/Makefile        |   1 +
>>>>   .../vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.c     |  20 ++--
>>>>   .../bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c           |  17 +--
>>>>   .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c           |  48 ++++-----
>>>>   .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_device.c        | 102 
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_device.h        |  54 ++++++++++
>>>>   6 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_device.c
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_device.h
>>>>
>>>
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