[PATCH v2] dma-mapping: treat dev->bus_dma_mask as a DMA limit

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Wed Nov 27 08:45:19 AEDT 2019


On 2019-11-26 6:51 pm, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 16:33 +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 25/11/2019 7:44 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 09:51:08AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>>>> Just as an FYI, this introduces a warning on arm32 allyesconfig for me:
>>>
>>> I think the dma_limit argument to iommu_dma_alloc_iova should be a u64
>>> and/or we need to use min_t and open code the zero exception.
>>>
>>> Robin, Nicolas - any opinions?
>>
>> Yeah, given that it's always held a mask I'm not entirely sure why it
>> was ever a dma_addr_t rather than a u64. Unless anyone else is desperate
>> to do it I'll get a cleanup patch ready for rc1.
> 
> Sounds good to me too
> 
> Robin, since I started the mess, I'll be happy to do it if it helps offloading
> some work from you.

No worries - your change only exposed my original weird decision ;)  On 
second look the patch was literally a trivial one-liner, so I've written 
it up already.

Cheers,
Robin.


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