Re: [PATCH 1/1] device.h: arm,dma-iommu: Move out dma_iommu_mapping struct

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 04 2014 - 13:48:12 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:41:46PM +0530, ritesh.harjani@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.harjani@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch moves out *mapping pointer of dma_iommu_mapping
> from arch/arm/include/asm/device.h to include/liunux/device.h

Why? Who else can use this becides arm devices?

>
> Also, it moves out complete structre definition of dma_iommu_mapping
> to include/linux/iommu-helper.h
>
> This is done since arm iommu's dma-mapping arch independent code,
> needs to be moved out to lib/iommu-helper.c, this means
> dma_iommu_mapping will be arch independent and later other archs
> can make use of it.

Will that really happen? Do you have patches that do that? I'd prefer
to not do stuff like this until you have a patch series that needs it,
otherwise this is just unneeded churn.

> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -705,6 +705,10 @@ struct device {
> /* arch specific additions */
> struct dev_archdata archdata;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_USE_IOMMU_HELPER_MAPPING
> + struct dma_iommu_mapping *mapping;
> +#endif
> +
> struct device_node *of_node; /* associated device tree node */
> struct acpi_dev_node acpi_node; /* associated ACPI device node */
>

Are you sure this will not break the build on systems that enable that
option, yet do not include iommu-helper.h?

thanks,

greg k-h
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