Messages in this thread |  | | From | Anup Patel <> | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:31:51 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Alloc resources before registering DMA device |
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:07:54PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> We should allocate DMA channel resources before registering the >> DMA device in sba_probe() because we can get DMA request soon >> after registering the DMA device. If DMA channel resources are >> not allocated before first DMA request then SBA-RAID driver will >> crash. >> >> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> >> --- >> drivers/dma/bcm-sba-raid.c | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- >> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/dma/bcm-sba-raid.c b/drivers/dma/bcm-sba-raid.c >> index f6616da..f14ed0a 100644 >> --- a/drivers/dma/bcm-sba-raid.c >> +++ b/drivers/dma/bcm-sba-raid.c >> @@ -1478,13 +1478,13 @@ static int sba_prealloc_channel_resources(struct sba_device *sba) >> int i, j, ret = 0; >> struct sba_request *req = NULL; >> >> - sba->resp_base = dma_alloc_coherent(sba->dma_dev.dev, >> + sba->resp_base = dma_alloc_coherent(sba->mbox_dev, > > how does this qualify as move before registering, you seem to be using > different device now
The sba->dma_dev.dev is assigned in sba_async_register().
Now, if we are calling sba_async_register() after sba_prealloc_channel_resources() then we cannot use sba->dma_dev.dev in sba_prealloc_channel_resources()
Regards, Anup
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