On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:56:35PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:47:32PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> > Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > >..... But I don't see (immediatly) why the change to
> > >pci_alloc_consistent was needed as well.
> >
> > It was a mistake on my part......when CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE is used,
> > the consisten_alloc() returns the dma_handle, and we have to ensure we
> > don't do the virt_to_bus later to get it (because it will be wrong once
> > iopa() is discarded :-)
>
> Ah..  So this part is a correct and necessary fix, separate from the
> rest of the patch?

That's right.  But I think the patch below is a better fix for the
problem.  It makes consistent_alloc()/consistent_free() just do the
right thing for both cache coherent and cache non-coherent processors,
so we can get rid of the ifdef in pci_alloc_consistent() and
pci_free_consistent().

diff -urN /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c 
linux-grinch/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c
--- /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c   Sat Jan 
19 19:07:14 2002
+++ linux-grinch/arch/ppc/kernel/pci-dma.c      Fri Jun 14 10:23:01 2002
@@ -25,25 +25,16 @@

        if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff)
                gfp |= GFP_DMA;
-#ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
        ret = consistent_alloc(gfp, size, dma_handle);
-#else
-       ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
-#endif

-       if (ret != NULL) {
+       if (ret != NULL)
                memset(ret, 0, size);
-               *dma_handle = virt_to_bus(ret);
-       }
+
        return ret;
 }

 void pci_free_consistent(struct pci_dev *hwdev, size_t size,
                         void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_handle)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
        consistent_free(vaddr);
-#else
-       free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, get_order(size));
-#endif
 }
diff -urN /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include/asm-ppc/io.h 
linux-grinch/include/asm-ppc/io.h
--- /home/dgibson/kernel/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include/asm-ppc/io.h        Sat May 
11 02:02:08 2002
+++ linux-grinch/include/asm-ppc/io.h   Fri Jun 14 10:21:11 2002
@@ -458,8 +458,17 @@
 #define dma_cache_wback(_start,_size)          do { } while (0)
 #define dma_cache_wback_inv(_start,_size)      do { } while (0)

-#define consistent_alloc(gfp, size, handle)    NULL
-#define consistent_free(addr, size)            do { } while (0)
+static inline void *consistent_alloc(int gfp, size_t size, dma_addr_t 
*dma_handle)
+{
+       void *vaddr;
+
+       vaddr = kmalloc(size, gfp);
+       if (vaddr)
+               *dma_handle = virt_to_bus((unsigned long) vaddr);
+       return vaddr;
+}
+
+#define consistent_free(addr, size)            kfree(addr)
 #define consistent_sync(addr, size, rw)                do { } while (0)
 #define consistent_sync_page(pg, off, sz, rw)  do { } while (0)




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