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Re: [PATCH] serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 05:28:41PM +0100, Tobias Jakobi wrote:
> Hello Krzysztof,
> 
> Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > If DMA is not available (even when configured in DeviceTree), the driver
> > will fail the startup procedure thus making serial console not
> > available.
> > 
> > For example this causes boot failure on QEMU ARMv7 (Exynos4210, SMDKC210):
> >     [    1.302575] OF: amba_device_add() failed (-19) for /amba/pdma@12680000
> >     ...
> >     [   11.435732] samsung-uart 13800000.serial: DMA request failed
> >     [   72.963893] samsung-uart 13800000.serial: DMA request failed
> >     [   73.143361] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=00000000
> > 
> > DMA is not necessary for serial to work, so continue with UART startup
> > after emitting a warning.
> > 
> > Fixes: Fixes: 62c37eedb74c ("serial: samsung: add dma reqest/release functions")
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> > index b4f86c219db1..7a17aedbf902 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> > @@ -1031,8 +1031,10 @@ static int s3c64xx_serial_startup(struct uart_port *port)
> >  	if (ourport->dma) {
> >  		ret =3c24xx_serial_request_dma(ourport);
> >  		if (ret < 0) {
> > -			dev_warn(port->dev, "DMA request failed\n");
> > -			return ret;
> > +			dev_warn(port->dev,
> > +				 "DMA request failed, DMA will not be used\n");
> > +			devm_kfree(port->dev, ourport->dma);
> > +			ourport->dma =ULL;
> This line looks odd. Did you want to assign NULL here?
> Also, whitespace on both sides of '='?

Ugh, I must ate it by mistake somehow because my git contains proper
"NULL" here.

Thanks for pointing this, I'll resend v3.


Best regards,
Krzysztof

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[PATCH] serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> - 2017-02-25 17:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> - 2017-02-25 17:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@math.uni-bielefeld.de> - 2017-02-25 17:50 +0100

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