linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: sh_flctl: pass FIFO as physical address

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVWss6Kz8sVrcUR3a4iJ+Z8D1q1Er6eH_uRMoS5DCN5pw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:30:02 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Frans Klaver <fransklaver@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: sh_flctl: pass FIFO as physical address

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> By convention, the FIFO address we pass using dmaengine_slave_config
> is a physical address in the form that is understood by the DMA
> engine, as a dma_addr_t, phys_addr_t or resource_size_t.
>
> The sh_flctl driver however passes a virtual __iomem address that
> gets cast to dma_addr_t in the slave driver. This happens to work
> on shmobile because that platform sets up an identity mapping for
> its MMIO regions, but such code is not portable to other platforms,
> and prevents us from ever changing the platform mapping or reusing
> the driver on other architectures like ARM64 that might not have the
> mapping.

Note that since the removal of (ARM) sh7367/sh7377/sh7372 support, this
driver is used on SH only.

I'll send a patch to update Kconfig.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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