linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] qe_common: add qe_muram

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Message-ID: <1440519775.16577.4.camel@freescale.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:22:55 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Zhao Qiang-B45475 <qiang.zhao@...escale.com>
CC:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"lauraa@...eaurora.org" <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	Xie Xiaobo-R63061 <X.Xie@...escale.com>,
	"benh@...nel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Li Yang-Leo-R58472 <LeoLi@...escale.com>,
	"paulus@...ba.org" <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] qe_common: add qe_muram_ functions to manage
 muram

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 02:19 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On 08/25/2015 12:15 PM, Laura Abbott wrote
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labbott@...hat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 12:15 PM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475; Wood Scott-B07421
> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org;
> > lauraa@...eaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061; benh@...nel.crashing.org; Li
> > Yang-Leo-R58472; paulus@...ba.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] qe_common: add qe_muram_ functions to manage
> > muram
> > 
> > On 08/24/2015 08:03 PM, Zhao Qiang wrote:
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labbott@...hat.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:32 AM
> > > > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475; Wood Scott-B07421
> > > > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org;
> > > > lauraa@...eaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061; benh@...nel.crashing.org;
> > > > Li Yang-Leo-R58472; paulus@...ba.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] qe_common: add qe_muram_ functions to
> > > > manage muram
> > > > 
> > > > There doesn't seem to be a check for allocation failure from the
> > > > gen_alloc.
> > > 
> > > gen_pool_alloc will return 0 if there is error, but if the address
> > > returned is just 0x0, it can't distinguish it is address or error.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, that's a bad limitation of gen_pool. Maybe one day that will get
> > fixed.
> > In a previous out of tree driver, I worked around this by offsetting the
> > gen_pool_add by a constant so any return value was non-zero and out of
> > memory was zero and then subtracting the constant off of the return value.
> > Not sure if that's better or worse than just fixing gen_alloc.
> > 
> 
> The workaround works for non alignment allocation, but for alignment 
> allocation,
> It need to align bytes to addr 0, offsetting the gen_pool_add maybe make 
> wrong alignment

It would work if the offset you add is a multiple of the size of muram.

-Scott

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