Re: [PATCH 03/10] x86: add initialization code for DMA-APIdebugging

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:40:32 +0100
Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > +static int hash_fn(struct dma_debug_entry *entry)
> > > +{
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Hash function is based on the dma address.
> > > +	 * We use bits 20-27 here as the index into the hash
> > > +	 */
> > > +	BUG_ON(entry->dev_addr == bad_dma_address);
> > 
> > 'bad_dma_address' is x86 specific. You already found it though.
> 
> Interesting. Is there another value for dma_addr_t which drivers can
> check for to find out if a dma-api operation failed?

They are architecture dependent. But only X86 uses a variable because
of GART and swiotlb, I think.
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