Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/PCI: sta2x11: use default DMA address translation

From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne
Date: Thu Oct 31 2019 - 06:43:47 EST


On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 14:45 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:00:44PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > The devices found behind this PCIe chip have unusual DMA mapping
> > constraints as there is an AMBA interconnect placed in between them and
> > the different PCI endpoints. The offset between physical memory
> > addresses and AMBA's view is provided by reading a PCI config register,
> > which is saved and used whenever DMA mapping is needed.
> >
> > It turns out that this DMA setup can be represented by properly setting
> > 'dma_pfn_offset', 'dma_bus_mask' and 'dma_mask' during the PCI device
> > enable fixup. And ultimately allows us to get rid of this device's
> > custom DMA functions.
> >
> > Aside from the code deletion and DMA setup, sta2x11_pdev_to_mapping() is
> > moved to avoid warnings whenever CONFIG_PM is not enabled.
>
> Looks sensible to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> But I can't tested it either, and kinda wonder if this code is actually
> still used by anyone..

Maybe Alessandro can shine some light on this (though I wonder his mail is stil
valid).

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