Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86 dma_*_coherent rework patchset v2

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 11:21:50 EST


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:16:50PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:11 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:46 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > this patchset reworks the dma_*_coherent functions in the DMA layer
> > > > > for the x86 architecture. The patch series extends the existing DMA
> > > > > backends with missing *coherent callbacks and simplifies the generic
> > > > > function to basically only call the registered backend. This allows
> > > > > future optimizations in hardware specific IOMMU implementations. The
> > > > > code ist tested on AMD64 with AMD IOMMU, GART, SWIOTLB and NOMMU as
> > > > > well as on my old 486 box. Muli tested the Calgary specific patch.
> > > > >
> > > > > Joerg
> > > > >
> > > > > Changes since v1:
> > > > >
> > > > > - fixed wrong logic in the pci-nommu alloc_coherent code
> > > > > - moved dma_*_coherent to include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
> > > > >
> > > > > git diff --stat tip/master.. :
> > > > >
> > > > > arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu.c | 2 -
> > > > > arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c | 14 ++++
> > > > > arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 146
> > > > > +------------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c |
> > > > > 35 +++++++++-
> > > > > arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++
> > > > > include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h | 47 ++++++++++---
> > > > > 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > applied to tip/x86/iommu - thanks Joerg!
> > > >
> > > > Jesse, Fujita-san, do these changes look fine to you?
> > >
> > > Yeah, I'll let you push this time. :)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > with a v2.6.28 ETA, right?
>
> Surely, this patchset should be for 2.6.28.
>
> Can you send this via the x86 tree instead of pci?
>
> - IOMMU code is arch stuff rather than pci.
> - We can avoid a mistake such as the previous one.

Yes, this is definitly 2.6.28 stuff.

Joerg

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