Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mtd: nand: Qualcomm NAND controller driver

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 07/29, Archit Taneja wrote:
> On 07/29/2015 07:18 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >On 07/27/2015 09:34 PM, Archit Taneja wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>On 07/25/2015 06:21 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>>On 07/21/2015 03:34 AM, Archit Taneja wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>+              int size)
> >>>>+{Looks like a
> >>>>+    struct desc_info *desc;
> >>>>+    struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dma_desc;
> >>>>+    struct scatterlist *sgl;
> >>>>+    int r;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*desc), GFP_KERNEL);
> >>>>+    if (!desc)
> >>>>+        return -ENOMEM;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    list_add_tail(&desc->list, &this->list);
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    sgl = &desc->sgl;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    sg_init_one(sgl, vaddr, size);
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    desc->dir = DMA_MEM_TO_DEV;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+    r = dma_map_sg(this->dev, sgl, 1, desc->dir);
> >>>>+    if (r == 0)
> >>>>+        goto err;
> >>>
> >>>Should we return an error in this case? Looks like return 0.
> >>
> >>dma_map_sg returns the number of sg entries successfully mapped. In
> >>this case, it should be 1.
> >
> >Right, but this function returns 0 (success?) if we failed to map anything.
> 
> Yes. The return value is number of entries successfully mapped.
> dma_map_sg is a macro that is replaced by dma_map_sg_attrs. Its
> comment
> says:
> 
> "dma_maps_sg_attrs returns 0 on error and > 0 on success. It should
> never return a value < 0."

Yes, and so this function that calls dma_map_sg() is going to
return 0 to the caller when it didn't do what it was asked to do?

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