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Message-ID: <cc1028ad-bd51-dea7-9f3d-fb954416b9fa@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:45:52 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>,
        "Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Matt Wang <wwentao@...are.com>,
        Miquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@...all.net>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] scsi: BusLogic remove bus_to_virt

On 6/17/22 14:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> The BusLogic driver is the last remaining driver that relies on the
> deprecated bus_to_virt() function, which in turn only works on a few
> architectures, and is incompatible with both swiotlb and iommu support.
> 
> Before commit 391e2f25601e ("[SCSI] BusLogic: Port driver to 64-bit."),
> the driver had a dependency on x86-32, presumably because of this
> problem. However, the change introduced another bug that made it still
> impossible to use the driver on any 64-bit machine.
> 
> This was in turn fixed in commit 56f396146af2 ("scsi: BusLogic: Fix
> 64-bit system enumeration error for Buslogic"), 8 years later, which
> shows that there are not a lot of users.
> 
> Maciej is still using the driver on 32-bit hardware, and Khalid mentioned
> that the driver works with the device emulation used in VirtualBox
> and VMware. Both of those only emulate it for Windows 2000 and older
> operating systems that did not ship with the better LSI logic driver.
> 
> Do a minimum fix that searches through the list of descriptors to find
> one that matches the bus address. This is clearly as inefficient as
> was indicated in the code comment about the lack of a bus_to_virt()
> replacement. A better fix would likely involve changing out the entire
> descriptor allocation for a simpler one, but that would be much
> more invasive.
> 
> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk>
> Cc: Matt Wang <wwentao@...are.com>
> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>   drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>   drivers/scsi/Kconfig    |  2 +-
>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> index a897c8f914cf..d057abfcdd5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> @@ -2515,12 +2515,26 @@ static int blogic_resultcode(struct blogic_adapter *adapter,
>   	return (hoststatus << 16) | tgt_status;
>   }
>   
> +/*
> + * turn the dma address from an inbox into a ccb pointer
> + * This is rather inefficient.
> + */
> +static struct blogic_ccb *
> +blogic_inbox_to_ccb(struct blogic_adapter *adapter, struct blogic_inbox *inbox)
> +{
> +	struct blogic_ccb *ccb;
> +
> +	for (ccb = adapter->all_ccbs; ccb; ccb = ccb->next_all)
> +		if (inbox->ccb == ccb->dma_handle)
> +			break;
> +
> +	return ccb;
> +}
>   
>   /*
>     blogic_scan_inbox scans the Incoming Mailboxes saving any
>     Incoming Mailbox entries for completion processing.
>   */
> -
>   static void blogic_scan_inbox(struct blogic_adapter *adapter)
>   {
>   	/*
> @@ -2540,16 +2554,7 @@ static void blogic_scan_inbox(struct blogic_adapter *adapter)
>   	enum blogic_cmplt_code comp_code;
>   
>   	while ((comp_code = next_inbox->comp_code) != BLOGIC_INBOX_FREE) {
> -		/*
> -		   We are only allowed to do this because we limit our
> -		   architectures we run on to machines where bus_to_virt(
> -		   actually works.  There *needs* to be a dma_addr_to_virt()
> -		   in the new PCI DMA mapping interface to replace
> -		   bus_to_virt() or else this code is going to become very
> -		   innefficient.
> -		 */
> -		struct blogic_ccb *ccb =
> -			(struct blogic_ccb *) bus_to_virt(next_inbox->ccb);
> +		struct blogic_ccb *ccb = blogic_inbox_to_ccb(adapter, adapter->next_inbox);
>   		if (comp_code != BLOGIC_CMD_NOTFOUND) {
>   			if (ccb->status == BLOGIC_CCB_ACTIVE ||
>   					ccb->status == BLOGIC_CCB_RESET) {
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> index cf75588a2587..56bdc08d0b77 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ config SCSI_HPTIOP
>   
>   config SCSI_BUSLOGIC
>   	tristate "BusLogic SCSI support"
> -	depends on PCI && SCSI && VIRT_TO_BUS
> +	depends on PCI && SCSI
>   	help
>   	  This is support for BusLogic MultiMaster and FlashPoint SCSI Host
>   	  Adapters. Consult the SCSI-HOWTO, available from

CCB handling in the driver is ugly anyway, so that'll be good enough.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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