[alsa-devel] [PATCH v10 11/13] slimbus: qcom: Add Qualcomm Slimbus controller driver

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Dec 21 18:26:28 CET 2017


> +
> +       ctrl->tx.base = dmam_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev,
> +                                          (ctrl->tx.sl_sz * ctrl->tx.n),
> +                                          &ctrl->tx.phy, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!ctrl->tx.base) {
> +               ret = -ENOMEM;
> +               goto err;
> +       }
> +
> +       ctrl->rx.base = dmam_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev,
> +                                          (ctrl->rx.sl_sz * ctrl->rx.n),
> +                                          &ctrl->rx.phy, GFP_KERNEL);

I got another one of

/git/arm-soc/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c: In function 'qcom_slim_probe':
/git/arm-soc/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c:584:9: error: passing
argument 3 of 'dmam_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
         &ctrl->tx.phy, GFP_KERNEL);
         ^
In file included from /git/arm-soc/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c:16:0:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/dma-mapping.h:760:14: note: expected
'dma_addr_t * {aka unsigned int *}' but argument is of type
'phys_addr_t * {aka long long unsigned int *}'
 extern void *dmam_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/git/arm-soc/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c:592:9: error: passing
argument 3 of 'dmam_alloc_coherent' from incompatible pointer type
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
         &ctrl->rx.phy, GFP_KERNEL);
         ^
In file included from /git/arm-soc/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c:16:0:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/dma-mapping.h:760:14: note: expected
'dma_addr_t * {aka unsigned int *}' but argument is of type
'phys_addr_t * {aka long long unsigned int *}'
 extern void *dmam_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,


I don't have time to analyze this further, but I guess this is the
same confusion
that happened in a few other qualcomm drivers, which all used dma_alloc_*
to get a buffer that gets passed into firmware.This is always wrong.

        Arnd


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