From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/8] unify dma_addr_t typedef (CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:09:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100903150948.4b612498.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100903094753S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:51:31 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> There are about twenty architectures have the own dma_addr_t typedef
> because include/asm-generic/types.h can't be perfect (some of them can
> use it though):
>
> #ifndef dma_addr_t
> #ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> typedef u64 dma_addr_t;
> #else
> typedef u32 dma_addr_t;
> #endif /* CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT */
> #endif /* dma_addr_t */
>
> Another problem is that there is a way to determine if dma_addr_t is
> 64-bit. We see hopeless tricks like the following:
>
> #if (defined(__i386__) && defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G)) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined (__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) || defined(__mips64__) || (defined(__mips__) && defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT_PHYS_ADDR))
>
> This clean up the mess with introducing CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
> define (like CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT).
>
> If architecture needs 64bit dma_addr_t, it must enable
> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT.
>
> The summary are:
>
> - always 64bit
> -- alpha
> -- ia64
> -- tile
>
> - conditionally 64bit
> -- x86
> -- mips
> -- powerpc
> -- s390
>
> - always 32bit
> -- arm
> -- avr32
> -- cris
> -- frv
> -- h8300
> -- m32r
> -- m68k
> -- mn10300
> -- parisc
> -- xtensa
> -- sparc
> -- blackfin
> -- microblaze
> -- score
> -- sh
Am I correct in believing that we can merge the first seven patches
into arch trees at any time and, once they are all merged, patch 8/8
can then go into mainline?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 0:51 [PATCH -mm 0/8] unify dma_addr_t typedef (CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT) FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 1/8] x86: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 2/8] alpha: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 3/8] ia64: " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 4/8] mips: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with (HIGHMEM && 64BIT_PHYS_ADDR) || 64BIT FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-20 13:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-09-22 9:18 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 5/8] powerpc: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 6/8] s390: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with 64BIT FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 7/8] tile: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` [PATCH -mm 8/8] add the common dma_addr_t typedef to include/linux/types.h FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 0:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-09-03 12:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 12:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <5uMrkKwSLHA.6664@exchange1.tad.internal.tilera.com>
2010-09-03 1:09 ` [PATCH -mm 7/8] tile: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT Chris Metcalf
2010-09-03 12:31 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-09-03 22:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-09-04 6:58 ` [PATCH -mm 0/8] unify dma_addr_t typedef (CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT) FUJITA Tomonori
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