On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 17:44 +0800, Chunhe Lan wrote: > Without this patch, kind of below error will be dumped if > 'insmod ixgbevf.ko' is executed: > > ixgbevf: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Virtual Function > Network Driver - version 2.7.12-k > ixgbevf: Copyright (c) 2009 - 2012 Intel Corporation. > ixgbevf 0000:01:10.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) > ixgbevf 0000:01:10.0: No usable DMA configuration, aborting > ixgbevf: probe of 0000:01:10.0 failed with error -5 > ...... > ......
That's not right. The DMA ops must be set properly for the VF somewhere in the arch code instead. When creating VFs, is there a hook allowing the arch to fix things up ? (Also adding linux-pci on CC) Ben. > Signed-off-by: Chunhe Lan <chunhe....@freescale.com> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > Tested-by: Chunhe Lan <chunhe....@freescale.com> > --- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 13 +++++++++---- > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h > index e27e9ad..b8c10de 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h > @@ -84,10 +84,15 @@ static inline struct dma_map_ops *get_dma_ops(struct > device *dev) > * only ISA DMA device we support is the floppy and we have a hack > * in the floppy driver directly to get a device for us. > */ > - if (unlikely(dev == NULL)) > - return NULL; > - > - return dev->archdata.dma_ops; > + if (dev && dev->archdata.dma_ops) > + return dev->archdata.dma_ops; > + /* > + * In some cases (for example, use the Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI > + * expression Virtual Function Network Driver -- ixgbevf.ko), > + * their value of dev is the NULL. If return NULL, the driver is > + * aborting. So return dma_direct_ops variable when dev == NULL. > + */ > + return &dma_direct_ops; > } > > static inline void set_dma_ops(struct device *dev, struct dma_map_ops *ops) _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
