From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de,
broonie@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, jslaby@suse.cz,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, maz@kernel.org,
mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, tabba@google.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] arm64: remove __dma_*_area() aliases
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:02:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbNsEedVuV13r9RL@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211206124715.4101571-4-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:47:12PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> The __dma_inv_area() and __dma_clean_area() aliases make cache.S harder
> to navigate, but don't gain us anything in practice.
>
> For clarity, let's remove them along with their redundant comments. The
> only users are __dma_map_area() and __dma_unmap_area(), which need to be
> position independent, and can call __pi_dcache_inval_poc() and
> __pi_dcache_clean_poc() directly.
>
> There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-06 12:47 [RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing Mark Rutland
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] linkage: add SYM_{ENTRY,START,END}_AT() Mark Rutland
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] linkage: add SYM_FUNC_{LOCAL_,}ALIAS() Mark Rutland
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] arm64: remove __dma_*_area() aliases Mark Rutland
2021-12-10 15:02 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] arm64: clean up symbol aliasing Mark Rutland
2021-12-10 15:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86: " Mark Rutland
2021-12-06 12:47 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] linkage: remove START/END ALIAS macros Mark Rutland
2021-12-06 14:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing Ard Biesheuvel
2021-12-06 15:10 ` Mark Brown
2021-12-07 5:23 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-12-07 13:33 ` Mark Rutland
2021-12-10 15:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15 9:24 ` Mark Rutland
2021-12-15 11:28 ` (subset) " Catalin Marinas
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