Re: [PATCH 2/5] dma-mapping: Add devm_ interface for dma_map_single()

[Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>]

Hello, Tejun.

On 19/05/14 23:17, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> What can't it just do the following?
>
> 	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
> 		devres_free(dr);
> 		return dma_handle;
> 	}
>
> The caller would have to invoke dma_mapping_error() again but is that
> a problem?
>    
That seems OK to me, but the problem I'm concerned with is this: In 
devm_get_free_pages() it says

     devres = devres_alloc(devm_pages_release,
                   sizeof(struct pages_devres), GFP_KERNEL);
     if (unlikely(!devres)) {
         free_pages(addr, order);
         return 0;
     }

What should I put instead of this "return 0" to conform with the current 
API?

And to make things even worse, on some architectures, 
dma_mapping_error() always returns success, regardless of dma_handle. So 
if we stick to the current API, the caller of devm_get_free_pages() will 
never know it failed on these architectures.

So my conclusion was that the caller must be aware that if 
devm_get_free_pages() returns zero it's an error, regardless of 
dma_mapping_error(). That breaks the API. Once it's broken, why not 
return zero on all possible errors?

Maybe I didn't understand what you suggested.

Regards,
    Eli


> Thanks.
>
>