[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] sunxi: nand: Add basic sunxi NAND driver with DMA support

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 12:12:15 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 00:06 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 11:36:08 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 23:26 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 11:15:58 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > > > +/* temporary buffer in internal ram */
> > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
> > > > > > +/* in SPL temporary buffer cannot be @ 0x0 */
> > > > > > +unsigned char temp_buf[SPL_WRITE_SIZE] __aligned(0x10)
> > > > > > __section(".text#"); +#else
> > > > > > +/* put temporary buffer @ 0x0 */
> > > > > > +unsigned char *temp_buf = (unsigned char *)0x0;
> > > > > > +#endif
> > > > > 
> > > > > If 0x0 is the address of an SRAM, its address should be
> > > > > symbolically defined. Also consider mapping it to a different
> > > > > virtual address, to avoid potential compiler mischief.
> > > > 
> > > > The DMA I believe accesses it via PA anyway, so mapping it elsewhere
> > > > would only confuse everyone who's hacking on the driver. Just my 5
> > > > cents ;-)
> > > 
> > > Hey, if it wakes people up to the fact that they ought to be using
> > > virt_to_phys() (or better yet, something that distinguishes DMA
> > > addresses from physical), great! :-)
> > 
> > Not really useful here, but whatever.
> > 
> > > And yes, people go on to do the same "everything is u32" crap in
> > > non-platform- specific files.  Just look at drivers/block/ahci.c.
> > 
> > Errr, this file is platform specific.
> 
> (I'm assuming that by "this file" you mean the sunxi file, not the ahci
> file.)
> 
> The point is that establishing good habits everywhere reduces the
> likelihood of the bad habits migrating to places where things break.
> 
> And no, I don't seriously expect my suggestion of remapping the virtual
> address to be implemented, but GCC has been known to do all sorts of weird
> stuff when it thinks it knows a NULL pointer is being dereferenced.

OK, you have a point there.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut