On Tuesday 06 May 2014 05:40 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Monday 05 May 2014 17:47:32 Santosh Shilimkar wrote:

quoted

+       dev->coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
+       if (!dev->dma_mask)
+               dev->dma_mask = &dev->coherent_dma_mask;
+
+       /*
+        * if dma-ranges property doesn't exist - just return else
+        * setup the dma offset
+        */
+       ret = of_dma_get_range(dev->of_node, &dma_addr, &paddr, &size);
+       if (ret < 0) {
+               dev_dbg(dev, "no dma range information to setup\n");
+               return;
+       }
+
+       /* DMA ranges found. Calculate and set dma_pfn_offset */
+       dev->dma_pfn_offset = PFN_DOWN(paddr - dma_addr);
+       dev_dbg(dev, "dma_pfn_offset(%#08lx)\n", dev->dma_pfn_offset);
+}

I think there should at least be a comment about why we are computing
the correct DMA mask here and then ignore that and just use DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
instead. I understand that Russell and Rob prefer it that way and I'm not
going to argue, but I find it counterintuitive and I think it deserves
an explanation in the source code for anybody who is trying to figure
out how things fit together.

In this patch, the dma_mask related code is just moved. We are not calculating
dma_mask either. I was looking for the history of how DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
landed up but couldn't trace it down apart from the fact that the code was
carried from powerPC. May be Rob knows.

How about below comment ? I didn't delibratly added point about bus
intercepting drivers dma_set_*mask() call etc.

/*
 * Set default dma-mask to 32 bit. Drivers are expected to setup
 * the correct supported dma_mask.
 */  
+       dev->coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
+       if (!dev->dma_mask)
+               dev->dma_mask = &dev->coherent_dma_mask;

Regards,
Santosh