RE: [PATCH] net: ethernet: fs-enet: remove casting dma_alloc_coherent

[David Laight]

From: Christophe Leroy
> Sent: 11 December 2020 15:22
> 
> Le 11/12/2020 à 09:52, Xu Wang a écrit :
> > Remove casting the values returned by dma_alloc_coherent.
> 
> Can you explain more in the commit log ?
> 
> As far as I can see, dma_alloc_coherent() doesn't return __iomem, and ring_base member is __iomem

Which is probably wrong - that is the kernel address of kernel memory.
So it shouldn't have the __iomem marker.

I wonder what else is wrong....

	David

> 
> Christophe
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Wang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
> > index 99fe2c210d0f..3ae345676e50 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
> > @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int allocate_bd(struct net_device *dev)
> >   	struct fs_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(dev);
> >   	const struct fs_platform_info *fpi = fep->fpi;
> >
> > -	fep->ring_base = (void __force __iomem *)dma_alloc_coherent(fep->dev,
> > +	fep->ring_base = dma_alloc_coherent(fep->dev,
> >   					    (fpi->tx_ring + fpi->rx_ring) *
> >   					    sizeof(cbd_t), &fep->ring_mem_addr,
> >   					    GFP_KERNEL);
> >

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