Re: [PATCH 2/2] RDMA: dma-mapping: Return an unsigned int from ib_dma_map_sg{,_attrs}

Jinpu Wang
2022-08-29T13:24:08Z

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 2:06 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:40:40AM +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 1:09 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:56:15AM +0200, Jack Wang wrote:
> > > > Following 2a047e0662ae ("dma-mapping: return an unsigned int from dma_map_sg{,_attrs}")
> > > > change the return value of ib_dma_map_sg{,attrs} to unsigned int.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> > > > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> > > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > > Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 2 +-
> > > > include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 6 +++---
> > > > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > You forgot to change ib_dma_map_sgtable_attrs() and various
> > > ib_dma_map_sg*() callers.
> > No, they are different.
> > ib_dma_map_sgtable_attrs and dma_map_sgtable return negative on errors.
>
> It is not the point. You changed ib_dma_virt_map_sg() to be unsigned,
> so now the following lines are not correct:
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> 4138 int nents;
> 4139
> 4140 if (ib_uses_virt_dma(dev)) {
> 4141 nents = ib_dma_virt_map_sg(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents);
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> "int nents" should be changed to "unsigned int".
>
> Thanks
ok, I can do it.
just to check if we are on the same page:
For all the callers of ib_dma_map_sg, would it be better to fix it
one patch per driver or do it in a single bigger patch.
I feel it's better to do it per driver, and there are drivers from
different subsystems e.g. nvme/rds/etc.

Thx!

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> > >
> > > Thanks
> > Thanks!