[PATCH v3 5/6] dpaa_eth: fix iova handling for contiguous frames

[Laurentiu Tudor]

Hi Christoph,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 7:32 PM
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:19:50PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com wrote:
> > +static phys_addr_t dpaa_iova_to_phys(const struct dpaa_priv *priv,
> > +				     dma_addr_t addr)
> > +{
> > +	return priv->domain ? iommu_iova_to_phys(priv->domain, addr) : addr;
> > +}
> 
> Again, a driver using the iommu API must not call iommu_* APIs.
> 
> This chane is not acceptable.

Unfortunately due to our hardware particularities we do not have alternatives. This is also the case for our next generation of ethernet drivers [1]. I'll let my colleagues that work on the ethernet drivers to comment more on this.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c#n37

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Best Regards, Laurentiu