Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] net: ti: netcp: restore get/set_pad_info() functionality

On Thursday 18 February 2016 14:46:14 Murali Karicheri wrote:

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

The commit 899077791403 ("netcp: try to reduce type confusion in
descriptors") introduces a regression in Kernel 4.5-rc1 and it breaks
get/set_pad_info() functionality.

The TI NETCP driver uses pad0 and pad1 fields of knav_dma_desc to
store DMA/MEM buffer pointer and buffer size respectively. And in both
cases for Keystone 2 the pointer type size is 32 bit regardless of
LAPE enabled or not, because CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT originally
is not expected to be defined.

			!LAPE	LPAE
sizeof(void*)		32bit	32bit
sizeof(dma_addr_t) 	32bit	32bit
sizeof(phys_addr_t) 	32bit	64bit

As this was never relevant or true, I don't think it needs to be
mentioned here, it just confuses things. Please just assume that
dma_addr_t can be 64-bit wide, but will only contain 32-bit
numbers on keystone.

Unfortunately, above commit changed buffer's pointers save/restore
code (get/set_pad_info()) and added intermediate conversation to u64
which works incorrectly on 32bit Keystone 2 and causes TI NETCP driver
crash in RX/TX path due to "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer"
exception. This issue was reported and discussed in [1].

Have you been able to figure out why it actually broke? I'd still
like to know.

Hence, fix it by partially reverting above commit and restoring
get/set_pad_info() functionality as it was before.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg95361.html
Cc: Wingman Kwok <redacted>
Cc: Mugunthan V N <redacted>
CC: David Laight <redacted>
Reported-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <redacted>

I don't think I sent this patch with a 'Signed-off-by', did I?
(I could be misremembering that).

	Arnd