(adding Philipp since he converted lots of drivers to livetree recently)
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi Mario,
On 29 September 2017 at 06:51, Mario Six mario.six@gdsys.cc wrote:
The dev_read_addr function does not do any bus translations, and just returns the raw address read from the device tree, which makes the driver not work on systems that need bus translations to get the actual memory address of the device's register space.
Aside from any current functionality, what is the correct thing for dev_read_addr() to do? I worry that the two parts (live/flat tree) might do different things.
I took a closer look, and indeed, the two parts of dev_read_addr behave differently: dev_read_addr calls dev_read_addr_index, which calls either ofnode_get_addr_index when live tree is active, or devfdt_get_addr_index when it's not. devfdt_get_addr_index applies bus translations, but ofnode_get_addr_index returns the untranslated address using of_read_number (the else part doesn't run, since we have an active live tree if ofnode_get_addr_index was called).
We could fix this by running of_translate_address on the value returned by of_read_number, so that dev_get_addr would then always return a translated address.
But what I think is strange is that most live tree conversion patches (e.g. a9d3037 ("usb: dwc2: convert to livetree") or 4aac33f ("dm: mmc: fsl_esdhc: Update to support livetree")) simply replaced devfdt_get_addr (which does apply bus translations) with dev_read_addr (which does not apply bus translations in the live tree case). Shouldn't the converted driver have failed in the live tree case? Or were all drivers converted until now not depending on any bus translations?
In any case, we should not compound the problem if dev_read_addr() is wrong.
Since the dev_read_addr function is widely used, we refrain from modifying it, and instead read the raw address from the device tree, and apply the bus translations using the recently introduced dev_translate_address function.
Signed-off-by: Mario Six mario.six@gdsys.cc
drivers/serial/ns16550.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
REgards, Simon
Best regards,
Mario