Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] lib/scatterlist: Fix offset type in sg_alloc_table_from_pages

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Tue Nov 22 2016 - 09:32:04 EST


Em Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:55:48 +0000
Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 08:50:17AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Scatterlist entries have an unsigned int for the offset so
> > correct the sg_alloc_table_from_pages function accordingly.
> >
> > Since these are offsets withing a page, unsigned int is
> > wide enough.
> >
> > Also converts callers which were using unsigned long locally
> > with the lower_32_bits annotation to make it explicitly
> > clear what is happening.
> >
> > v2: Use offset_in_page. (Chris Wilson)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pawel Osciak <pawel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> (v1)
>
> If there were kerneldoc, it would nicely explain that having an offset
> larger then a page is silly when passing in array of pages.
>
> Changes elsewhere look ok (personally I'd be happy with just
> offset_in_page(), 4GiB superpages are somebody else's problem :)

For the media changes, that looked OK. We don't have any needs
to stream 4GB images nowadays :-)

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -Chris
>


Thanks,
Mauro