linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 00/11] PCI: brcmstb: enable PCIe for STB chips

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Date:   Tue, 8 Sep 2020 11:42:26 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@...adcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/11] PCI: brcmstb: enable PCIe for STB chips

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:29:06AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/7/2020 10:43 AM, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:16 AM Lorenzo Pieralisi
> > <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:29:59AM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:35 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:40:27AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On 8/24/2020 12:30 PM, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Patchset Summary:
> > > > > > >     Enhance a PCIe host controller driver.  Because of its unusual design
> > > > > > >     we are foced to change dev->dma_pfn_offset into a more general role
> > > > > > >     allowing multiple offsets.  See the 'v1' notes below for more info.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We are version 11 and counting, and it is not clear to me whether there is
> > > > > > any chance of getting these patches reviewed and hopefully merged for the
> > > > > > 5.10 merge window.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > There are a lot of different files being touched, so what would be the
> > > > > > ideal way of routing those changes towards inclusion?
> > > > > 
> > > > > FYI, I offered to take the dma-mapping bits through the dma-mapping tree.
> > > > > I have a bit of a backlog, but plan to review and if Jim is ok with that
> > > > > apply the current version.
> > > > Sounds good to me.
> > > 
> > > Hi Jim,
> > > 
> > > is the dependency now solved ? Should we review/take this series as
> > > is for v5.10 through the PCI tree ?
> > Hello Lorenzo,
> > 
> > We are still working out a regression with the DMA offset commit on
> > the RaspberryPi.  Nicolas has found the root cause and we are now
> > devising a solution.
> 
> Maybe we can parallelize the PCIe driver review while the DMA changes
> are being worked on in Christoph's branch. Lorenzo, are you fine with
> the PCIe changes proper?

I will have a look - the main contentious point was about the DMA
changes - if Christoph is happy with them I am OK with them
too - I hope there is not anything controversial in the host
bridge driver itself but I will look into it.

Lorenzo