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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jarkao2@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] DMA sync errors
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100120152832.06a905a5@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100120.144639.31770545.davem@davemloft.net>

This should fix the dma-debug API code (and documentation), to
avoid false positives when sync is done on a partial map.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt	2010-01-20 15:17:01.390143729 -0800
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt	2010-01-20 15:18:48.967875255 -0800
@@ -377,9 +377,10 @@ void
 pci_dma_sync_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 		       int nelems, int direction)
 
-Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping.  All the
-parameters must be the same as those passed into the single mapping
-API.
+Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping.  The
+device and handle must be the same as those passed into the single mapping
+API. The size can be less than the original mapping if only part
+of the mapping needs to be accessed.
 
 Notes:  You must do this:
 
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c	2010-01-20 15:22:55.919519883 -0800
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c	2010-01-20 15:26:31.648895638 -0800
@@ -285,11 +285,9 @@ static struct dma_debug_entry *hash_buck
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If we have multiple matches but no perfect-fit, just return
-	 * NULL.
+	 * If we have multiple matches but no perfect-fit
+	 * return best value and let caller deal with it.
 	 */
-	ret = (matches == 1) ? ret : NULL;
-
 	return ret;
 }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 20:44 [PATCH 00/11] DMA sync errors Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 01/11] tg3: fix DMA sync_single length error Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 02/11] sky2: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 21:32   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 22:52     ` David Miller
2010-01-20 23:21       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 23:34         ` David Miller
2010-01-20 23:41           ` David Miller
2010-01-20 23:59             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-21  0:04               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-21  0:15                 ` David Miller
2010-01-20 23:52           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 23:56             ` David Miller
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 03/11] skge: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 04/11] r8169: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 05/11] rrunner: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 06/11] de2104x: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-22  1:02   ` Grant Grundler
2010-01-22  1:12     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 07/11] sungem: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] sunhme: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] cassini: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 10/11] cxgb3: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:45 ` [PATCH 11/11] ipoib: " Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 22:46 ` [PATCH 00/11] DMA sync errors David Miller
2010-01-20 23:28   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-01-21  0:18     ` David Miller
2010-01-21  0:34       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-21  0:36         ` David Miller
2010-01-21 12:44         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-21 13:12           ` David Miller

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