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From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: remove block layer bounce buffering for MMC
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:52:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d09d233-8631-2a35-cbcf-ba87b0314b3a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190114095804.27978-1-hch@lst.de>

On 14/01/2019 09:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> this series converts the remaining MMC host drivers to properly kmap the
> scatterlist entries it does PIO operations on, and then goes on to
> remove the usage of block layer bounce buffering (which I plan to remove
> eventually) from the MMC layer.
> 
> As a bonus I've converted various drivers to the proper scatterlist
> helpers so that at least in theory they are ready for chained
> scatterlists.
> 
> All the changes are compile tested only as I don't have any of the
> hardware, so a careful review would be appreciated.

One general point for the kmap() conversions - it's not obvious (to me 
at least) whether or how that would work for a segment where sg->length 
 > PAGE_SIZE. Or is there some cast-iron guarantee from the MMC 
mid-layer that it will never let the block layer generate such things in 
the first place?

Robin.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-14  9:57 remove block layer bounce buffering for MMC Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 01/11] mmc: davinci: handle highmem pages Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 02/11] mmc: moxart: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 03/11] mmc: omap: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 04/11] mmc: omap: handle chained sglists Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 05/11] mmc: s3cmci: handle highmem pages Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-30  7:57   ` Ulf Hansson
2019-01-30  8:04     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-30  8:16       ` Ulf Hansson
2019-01-14  9:57 ` [PATCH 06/11] mmc: s3cmci: handle chained sglists Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] mmc: mvsdio: handle highmem pages Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14 16:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-01-30  7:55   ` Ulf Hansson
2019-01-14  9:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] mmc: sh_mmcif: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] mmc: sh_mmcif: handle chained sglists Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:58 ` [PATCH 10/11] mmc: core: don't use block layer bounce buffers Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14  9:58 ` [PATCH 11/11] dma-mapping: remove dma_max_pfn Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14 10:26 ` remove block layer bounce buffering for MMC Ulf Hansson
2019-01-16 10:24   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-16 13:51     ` Linus Walleij
2019-01-16 13:54       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-14 16:52 ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2019-01-14 16:57   ` Christoph Hellwig

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