[PATCH 1/5 v2] dma-mapping: add generic dma_get_page_shift API

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 15.10.2015 [15:52:19 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 14.10.2015 [08:42:51 -0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Nishanth,
> > 
> > sorry for the late reply.
> > 
> > > > On Power, since it's technically variable, we'd need a function. So are
> > > > you suggesting define'ing it to a function just on Power and leaving it
> > > > a constant elsewhere?
> > > > 
> > > > I noticed that sparc has a IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT already, fwiw.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I should have been more specific -- I'm ready to spin out a v3,
> > > with a sparc-specific function.
> > > 
> > > Are you ok with leaving it a function for now (the only caller is in
> > > NVMe obviously).
> > 
> > 
> > I guess we do indeed need a function then.  I'll take a look at your
> > patch, but as long you found a way to avoid adding too much boilerplate
> > code it should be fine.
> 
> Ok, so I've got the moved function (include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> instead of dma-mapping-common.h) ready to go, which should only
> involve changing the first patch in the series. But I'm really
> mystified by what to do for sparc, which defines IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT and
> IO_PAGE_SHIFT in arch/sparc/kernel/iommu_common.h.
> 
> 1) Which constant reflects the value we mean for this function on
> sparc?  I assume it should be IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT, but they are the same
> value and I want to make sure I get the semantics right.
> 
> 2) Where would I put sparc's definition of dma_get_page_shift()?
> Should it be in a asm/dma-mapping.h? Should we move some of the
> constants from arch/sparc/kernel/iommu_common.h to
> arch/sparc/include/asm/iommu_common.h and then #include that in
> asm/dma-mapping.h?
> 
> Dave M., any opinions/insights? Essentially, this helper function
> assists the NVMe driver in determining what page size it should use to
> satisfy both the device and IOMMU's requirements. Maybe I
> misunderstand the constants on sparc and PAGE_SHIFT is fine there too?

Anyone with sparc knowledge have an opinion/input?

-Nish