linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: Introduce DMA ranges parsing

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0h_ySMbtGfs5_E+PCJko+3_aDo=1joDaA1_2wCT5tZe=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:42:15 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>, Feng Kan <fkan@....com>,
        Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Nate Watterson <nwatters@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: Introduce DMA ranges parsing

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi@....com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:15:42AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>

[cut]

>
>> > +           return -EINVAL;
>> > +   }
>> > +
>> > +   ret = acpi_dev_get_dma_resources(adev, &list);
>> > +   if (ret > 0) {
>> > +           list_for_each_entry(rentry, &list, node) {
>> > +                   if (dma_offset && rentry->offset != dma_offset) {
>> > +                           ret = -EINVAL;
>> > +                           pr_warn("Can't handle multiple windows with different offsets\n");
>> > +                           goto out;
>> > +                   }
>> > +                   dma_offset = rentry->offset;
>> > +
>> > +                   /* Take lower and upper limits */
>> > +                   if (rentry->res->start < dma_start)
>> > +                           dma_start = rentry->res->start;
>> > +                   if (rentry->res->end > dma_end)
>> > +                           dma_end = rentry->res->end;
>> > +           }
>> > +
>> > +           if (dma_start >= dma_end) {
>> > +                   ret = -EINVAL;
>> > +                   pr_warn("Invalid DMA regions configuration\n");
>>
>> dev_warn()?
>>
>> And why _warn() and not _info()?
>
> Mmm..ok for the dev_ prefix - basically this would be a FW_BUG (I think
> this specific error condition is overkill TBH, the ACPI resource
> validation code should catch it before we even get here) not sure
> about downgrading it to _info() though, I would leave it at this
> loglevel - in particular in the offset check above:
>
>         if (dma_offset && rentry->offset != dma_offset) {
>                 ret = -EINVAL;
>                 pr_warn("Can't handle multiple windows with different offsets\n");
>                 goto out;
>         }

Well, so the "why" question above still has no answer ...