[PATCH 6/9] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-16T10:08:21Z

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:54:46 +0200
> Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote:
> > +#ifdef phys_to_pfn
> > +/* nothing to do */
> > +#elif defined __phys_to_pfn
> > +# define phys_to_pfn __phys_to_pfn
> > +#elif defined __va
> > +# define phys_to_pfn(x) page_to_pfn(virt_to_page(__va(x)))
> > +#else
> > +# error phys_to_pfn implementation needed
> > +#endif
>
> Yikes!
>
> This hackery should not be here, please. If we need a phys_to_pfn()
> then let's write a proper one which lives in core MM and arch, then get
> it suitably reviewed and integrated and then maintained.

Another question is whether we have any arch where PFN != PHYS >> PAGE_SHIFT?
We've used __phys_to_pfn() to implement that on ARM (with a corresponding
__pfn_to_phys()). Catalin recently added a cast to __phys_to_pfn() for
LPAE, which I don't think is required:

-#define __phys_to_pfn(paddr) ((paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+#define __phys_to_pfn(paddr) ((unsigned long)((paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT))

since a phys_addr_t >> PAGE_SHIFT will be silently truncated if the passed
in physical address was 64-bit anyway. (Note: we don't support > 32-bit
PFNs).

So, I'd suggest CMA should just use PFN_DOWN() and be done with it.