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Keystone 2 boards boot failure

Message ID 56B38B3E.1010601@ti.com
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Grygorii Strashko Feb. 4, 2016, 5:32 p.m. UTC
On 02/04/2016 03:07 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 04 February 2016 14:19:54 Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>> On 02/03/2016 10:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 03 February 2016 18:31:00 Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>>> On 02/03/2016 06:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 03 February 2016 16:21:05 Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/03/2016 04:11 PM, Franklin S Cooper Jr. wrote:
>>>>>>> On 02/02/2016 07:19 PM, Franklin S Cooper Jr. wrote:
>>>> config:
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
>>>> CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT <--- should not be defined for KS2
>>>> typedef u64 dma_addr_t;
>>>> #else
>>>> typedef u32 dma_addr_t;
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> Above is valid configuration for Keystone 2 with LPAE=y
>>>
>>> Ok, but what do you mean with "should not be defined"? It clearly is
>>> defined in any multiplatform configuration that enables another platform
>>> needing 64-bit dma_addr_t.
>>>
>>
>> Then we probably have bigger problem :) KS2 will not work as is with
>> such configuration and not only KS2 - LPAE is enabled for TI DRA7 also.
>>
>> Problem here is that dma_addr_t is used to fill DMA controllers data or can be
>> written directly to register, so all drivers need to be revised which was initially
>> created for 32-bit HW and with assumption that dma_addr_t is 32-bits.
> 
> Almost everything should work fine. What all other drivers tend to do is
> something like
> 
> 	writel(dma_addr, reg_base + REG_OFFSET);
> 
> which works for 64-bit dma_addr_t as long as the upper 32 bits are
> always zero, and that should be the case on keystone.
> 
> The part that does not work and that originally triggered the
> warning I was fixing is
> 
> void f(u32 *data)
> {
> 	writel(*data, reg_base + reg_offset);
> }
> 
> ...
> 
> 	f((u32 *)&dma_addr);
> 
> as this driver does. I have not seen the same warning for any
> other driver in the kernel, so it is clearly something that
> rarely happens, and it still works by chance on little-endian
> kernels, just not on big-endian.
> 
>> Also, I'm not sure that it will be possible to support both LE/BE in such case.
>>
>> Actually, I've tried current multi_v7_defconfig and can see:
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set
>> # CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set
>> # CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is not set
>> What is your "multiplatform configuration" ??
> 
> kernelci is testing multi_v7_defconfig with LPAE and KVM enabled on top.
> This breaks all pre-Cortex-A15 platforms (A5, A8 and A9 don't have LPAE)
> but should work on any A7/A15/A17 machine.
>   
>> So I propose to fix this regression first (as we both did - revert changes in
>> get/set_pad_info()) and have KS2 working again with current version of
>> defconfig files (keystone_defconfig & multi_v7_defconfig) while this
>> discussion is continuing.
> 
> Could you please at least test the last patch I sent? It really shouldn't
> be too hard to find the line that was wrong in my patch.
> 

I don't see any build warnings (in netcp) with my patch + below diff and If I manually enable
ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT.
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Patch

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@  netcp_tx_map_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netcp_intf *netcp)
                u32 page_offset = frag->page_offset;
                u32 buf_len = skb_frag_size(frag);
                dma_addr_t desc_dma;
+               u32 desc_dma_32;
                u32 pkt_info;
 
                dma_addr = dma_map_page(dev, page, page_offset, buf_len,
@@ -1079,7 +1080,8 @@  netcp_tx_map_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netcp_intf *netcp)
                        (netcp->tx_compl_qid & KNAV_DMA_DESC_RETQ_MASK) <<
                                KNAV_DMA_DESC_RETQ_SHIFT;
                set_pkt_info(dma_addr, buf_len, 0, ndesc);
-               set_words(&desc_dma, 1, &pdesc->next_desc);
+               desc_dma_32 = (u32)desc_dma;
+               set_words(&desc_dma_32, 1, &pdesc->next_desc);
                pkt_len += buf_len;
                if (pdesc != desc)
                        knav_pool_desc_map(netcp->tx_pool, pdesc,