Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}_resource

From: Niklas Söderlund
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 10:33:18 EST


Hi Christoph,

On 2016-04-21 06:49:42 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 03:29:17PM +0200, Niklas S?derlund wrote:
> > > Yes, it would be good to do an audit of all the ARM dma_ops as well
> > > as generic code like drivers/base/dma-*.c, lib/dma-debug.c and
> > > include/linux/dma-*.h
>
> What about things like the phys_addr() helper in lib/dma-debug.c? That
> was in fact what prompted my question for an audit, and it seems
> to not even feature on your list. What patterns / symbols did you look
> for?


I have followed the call path from the usage in
drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c and made sure the dma_addr_t is not used in a
bad way.

I also looked at the dma-mapping API and ruled out that the only
function that make sens to use with a dma_addr_t from dma_map_resource()
are dma_unmap_resource() and dma_mapping_error(). With that I can't see
how a dma_addr_t would end up in lib/dma-debug.c. But I might be missing
something?

In the big picture do you feel the approach I have is the correct way to
solve my problem? Provided we can work out this issues ofc?

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Regards,
Niklas Söderlund