linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:07:27 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>
Cc:     "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, ogabbay@...ana.ai,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:58:41AM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:13 AM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:17:36PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > This is v4 of the Habana Labs kernel driver patch-set. It contains fixes
> > > > according to reviews done on v3, mainly for the command buffer, sysfs and MMU
> > > > patches. In addition, patch 2/15 was reduced in size from 4.3MB to 1.4MB.
> > > >
> > > > The patch-set is rebased on v5.0-rc6.
> > > >
> > > > Link to v3 cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/4/1033
> > > >
> > > > Link to v2 cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/30/1003
> > > >
> > > > Link to v1 cover letter: https://lwn.net/Articles/777342/
> > > >
> > > > I would appricate any feedback, question and/or review.
> > >
> > > There's been some 0-day bot feedback on some of these patches now that I
> > > put them in my -testing branch.  So I'm going to drop the patch series
> > > from there now and wait for a v5 of the series that hopefully will have
> > > those issues fixed :)
> > >
> Hi Greg,
> I looked at the 4 warnings I received from your emails, and they all
> appear in i386 architecture.
> I don't want to support 32-bit kernel and I don't intend to support it.
> Can we just specify in kconfig that we don't support it, and then you
> won't get these warnings ?

No, if you use the correct kernel types and castings, you should be
fine.

> I initially set in kconfig to support only x86_64, and you told me
> (and you were right) not to limit to that. But I do think I would like
> to disable the driver on i386.

You might want to not support it on 32bit kernels, but even then, I
think all you need to do here is use the proper kernel types and you
will be ok.

As an example:
   drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c: In function 'goya_early_init':
   drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c:404:4: warning: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t' {aka 'unsigned int'} [-Wformat=]
       "Not " HL_NAME "? BAR %d size %llu, expecting %llu\n",
       ^~~~~~

Use the correct printk type for a resource_size_t.

You got that warning twice.

Another one is:
>> drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c:283:24: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
     volatile u32 *paddr = (volatile u32 *) addr;

Now using a volatile makes me want to say "you are doing it wrong!", as
yes, you shouldn't be reading directly from a memory pointer, you need
to use the correct iomem accessors, right?

So I think just fixing this stuff up should be simple, the
resource_size_t fix is needed no matter what size kernel you run on.

thanks,

greg k-h