linux-kernel - Re: No dma_sync_* during pci_probe? (Sparc, post 2.6.22 regression)

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:40:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, krh@...planet.net,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: No dma_sync_* during pci_probe? (Sparc, post 2.6.22 regression)

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:33:05 +0100

> Does arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c fill them in incorrectly or too late?

The problem is that I created indirection that was totally unused, the
operation vectors members for these cases thus didn't get filled in,
and we OOPS trying to call NULL pointers as functions :-)

This should fix the crash:

diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/dma-mapping.h b/include/asm-sparc64/dma-mapping.h
index 1fc6554..38cbec7 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/dma-mapping.h
@@ -25,15 +25,9 @@ struct dma_ops {
 	void (*sync_single_for_cpu)(struct device *dev,
 				    dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size,
 				    enum dma_data_direction direction);
-	void (*sync_single_for_device)(struct device *dev,
-				       dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size,
-				       enum dma_data_direction direction);
 	void (*sync_sg_for_cpu)(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 				int nelems,
 				enum dma_data_direction direction);
-	void (*sync_sg_for_device)(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
-				   int nelems,
-				   enum dma_data_direction direction);
 };
 extern const struct dma_ops *dma_ops;
 
@@ -105,7 +99,7 @@ static inline void dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev,
 					      size_t size,
 					      enum dma_data_direction direction)
 {
-	dma_ops->sync_single_for_device(dev, dma_handle, size, direction);
+	/* No flushing needed to sync cpu writes to the device.  */
 }
 
 static inline void dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
@@ -123,7 +117,7 @@ static inline void dma_sync_single_range_for_device(struct device *dev,
 						    size_t size,
 						    enum dma_data_direction direction)
 {
-	dma_sync_single_for_device(dev, dma_handle+offset, size, direction);
+	/* No flushing needed to sync cpu writes to the device.  */
 }
 
 
@@ -138,7 +132,7 @@ static inline void dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev,
 					  struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
 					  enum dma_data_direction direction)
 {
-	dma_ops->sync_sg_for_device(dev, sg, nelems, direction);
+	/* No flushing needed to sync cpu writes to the device.  */
 }
 
 static inline int dma_mapping_error(dma_addr_t dma_addr)
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