From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dma_get_required_mask tidyups
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:01:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180919150148.GA29588@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180910061332.28187-1-hch@lst.de>
Any comments? I have a a few things piled up that base on this, so
some forward progress would be great.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 08:13:29AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the dma_get_required_mask dma API implementation has always been a little
> odd, in that we by default don't wire it up struct dma_map_ops, but
> instead hard code a default implementation. powerpc and ia64 override
> this default and either call a method or otherwise duplicate the default.
>
> This series always enabled the method and just falls back to the previous
> default implementation when it is not available, as well as fixing up
> a few bits in the default implementations. This already allows removing
> the ia64 override of the implementation, and will also allow to remove
> the powerpc one together with a few additional cleanups in the powerpc
> code, but those will be sent separately with other powerpc DMA API
> patches. Last but not least the method will allow us to return a more
> sensible value for typical iommu dma_ops eventually, but that is left
> to another series as well.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-19 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-10 6:13 dma_get_required_mask tidyups Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-10 6:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] dma-mapping: make the get_required_mask method available unconditionally Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20180910061332.28187-1-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2018-09-10 6:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] dma-mapping: simplify dma_direct get_required_mask Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-10 6:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] dma-mapping: use phys_to_dma in dma_direct_get_required Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-19 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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