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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] swiotlb: Allow arch override of address_needs_mapping
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>> Some architectures need non-trivial bus<->phys conversion routines, etc,
>>
>
> Only Xen needs such conversion for swiotlb.
>

Becky's patches of last week also added __weak annotations to
swiotlb_bus_to_virt, virt_to_bus and bus_to_phys; added the hwdev
parameter to swiotlb_bus_to_phys; and added a weak
swiotlb_arch_address_needs_mapping. I assume that was needed because
powerpc needs non-trivial implementations for those functions.

>> so either we can require it that all architectures wishing to use
>> swiotlb define these functions, or have weak default functions that can
>> be overridden by architectures where necessary.
>>
>
> Can you give an example? I don't think IA64, X86_64 or POWER (which
> will use swiotlb) need any __weak functions. If you say other archs
> could use swiotlb, please tell me how they need these __weak.
>

As I said, Becky's patches added hooks in many of the places we added
them for Xen. I assume that's because powerpc needs them; I have not
seen the arch/powerpc side of those changes.

J


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