Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit | | From | Ian Campbell <> | | Date | Tue, 26 May 2009 13:51:47 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 19:55 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:27 -0400, Becky Bruce wrote: > > > >> I can work with that, but it's going to be a bit inefficient, as I > >> actually need the dma_addr_t, not the phys_addr_t, so I'll have to > >> convert. In every case, this is a conversion I've already done and > >> that I need in the calling code as well. > >> > > > > Does > > > > dma_addr_t dma_map_range(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t addr, > > size_t size); > > > > work for you? > > > > If the range does not need mapping then it returns the dma address, if > > you needed to calculate the dma address anyway to figure out if mapping > > is required then this is fine. If the range does need mapping then it > > returns NULL. > > > > My only concern is whether dma_addr_t == 0 is actually equivalent to > NULL. That is, can we be sure that address 0 will never be used?
It seems not, ~0UL might have been an option, but...
> Taking dma_alloc_coherent as a model, we could have something like: > > int dma_map_range(struct device *hwdev, phys_addr_t addr, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_addrp); > > > where *dma_addrp is set if the function returns success (bool return > type might be clearer).
... this sounds like a good idea to me.
Ian.
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