linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] video: xilinxfb: Fix sparse warnings

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 17:28:45 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	monstr@...str.eu
Cc:	Timur Tabi <timur@...i.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] video: xilinxfb: Fix sparse warnings

On Friday 31 May 2013 16:22:24 Michal Simek wrote:
>         if (pdata->fb_phys) {
>                 drvdata->fb_phys = pdata->fb_phys;
> -               drvdata->fb_virt = ioremap(pdata->fb_phys, fbsize);
> +               drvdata->fb_virt_io = ioremap(pdata->fb_phys, fbsize);
> +
> +               if (!drvdata->fb_virt_io) {
> +                       dev_err(dev, "Could not allocate frame buffer memory\n");
> +                       rc = -ENOMEM;
> +                       if (drvdata->flags & BUS_ACCESS_FLAG)
> +                               goto err_fbmem;
> +                       else
> +                               goto err_region;
> +               }
> +
> +               /* Clear (turn to black) the framebuffer */
> +               memset_io(drvdata->fb_virt_io, 0, fbsize);
>         } else {
> -               drvdata->fb_alloced = 1;
>                 drvdata->fb_virt = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_ALIGN(fbsize),
>                                         &drvdata->fb_phys, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       }
> 

I think you also want to use ioremap_wc or dma_alloc_writecombine
here, to get a write-combining mapping, rather than a device mapping
that you would use for MMIO register access.

There is also a builtin assumption in the code above that the DMA
address space pointer (which you pass into REG_FB_ADDR) is the
same as what you pass into drvdata->info.fix.smem_start. That is
not the case in general, but I don't see a good way around it
when pdata->fb_phys is set by the platform to something outside
of system memory. It should probably have a comment next to it.

	Arnd
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