Hi,

Peter Chen <[email protected]> writes:
>> > According to xHCI ch4.20 Scratchpad Buffers
>> >    A Scratchpad Buffer is a PAGESIZE block of system memory
>> >            located on a PAGESIZE boundary
>> >    ...
>> >    Software clears the Scratchpad Buffer to ‘0’
>> >
>> > So, we need to use dma pool for PAGESIZE boundary buffer, and zeroed
>> > its region using dma_pool_zalloc.
>> 
>> you're doing two separate things here...
>> 
>> > Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
>> >  drivers/usb/host/xhci.h     |  1 +
>> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
>> > index 22a03b7..56aa0a6 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
>> > @@ -1710,12 +1710,18 @@ static int scratchpad_alloc(struct xhci_hcd *xhci, 
>> > gfp_t flags)
>> >            goto fail_sp3;
>> >  
>> >    xhci->dcbaa->dev_context_ptrs[0] = 
>> > cpu_to_le64(xhci->scratchpad->sp_dma);
>> > +
>> > +  xhci->scratchpad_pool = dma_pool_create("xhci scratchpad buffer pool",
>> > +                  dev, xhci->page_size,
>> > +                  xhci->page_size, xhci->page_size);
>> 
>> adding a DMA pool here, and ...
>> 
>> > +  if (!xhci->scratchpad_pool)
>> > +          goto fail_sp4;
>> > +
>> >    for (i = 0; i < num_sp; i++) {
>> >            dma_addr_t dma;
>> > -          void *buf = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, xhci->page_size, &dma,
>> > -                          flags);
>> > +          void *buf = dma_pool_zalloc(xhci->scratchpad_pool, flags, &dma);
>> 
>> ... fixing a possible bug here.
>> 
>
> I know it is two things, but after the dma pool is introduced, we need a
> new API to allocate memory, do you want to me use dma_pool_alloc first,
> then, change it to use dma_pool_zalloc at another patch? I am ok to do
> that.

the other way around. First you patch dma_alloc_coherent() to
dma_zalloc_coherent() and that could go in during the -rc and possibly
get a stable tag, since spec requires kernel to zero the memory area.

-- 
balbi

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