Re: [GIT PULL] ARM fixes

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:49:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > One fix touches code outside of arch/arm, which is related to sorting
> > out the DMA masks correctly.  There is a long standing issue with the
> > conversion from PFNs to addresses where people assume that shifting an
> > unsigned long left by PAGE_SHIFT results in a correct address.
> 
> You should probably have used PFN_PHYS(), which does this correctly.
> Your explicit u64 isn't exactly wrong, but phys_addr_t is really the
> right type for the result.

Almost, but not quite.  If we're going to avoid u64, then dma_addr_t
woudl be the right type here because we're talking about DMA addresses.
We could also switch to keeping this as PFNs - block internally converts
it to a PFN anyway:

void blk_queue_bounce_limit(struct request_queue *q, u64 max_addr)
{
        unsigned long b_pfn = max_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
...

and that is ultimately assigned to q->limits.bounce_pfn.  So, if we
arranged for blk_queue_bounce_limit() to take a PFN, and then modified
it's two callers, then we don't need to care about converting between
phys and pfns.

Maybe blk_queue_bounce_pfn_limit() so we ensure all users get caught?

> That said, it's admittedly a disgusting name, and I wonder if we
> should introduce a nicer-named "pfn_to_phys()" that matches the other
> "xyz_to_abc()" functions we have (including "pfn_to_virt()")

We have these on ARM:

arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:#define	__pfn_to_phys(pfn)	((phys_addr_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:#define	__phys_to_pfn(paddr)	((unsigned long)((paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT))

it probably makes sense to pick those right out, maybe losing the
__ prefix on them.

> Looking at it, the Xen people then do this disgusting thing:
> "__va(PFN_PHYS(pfn))" which is both ugly and pointless (__va() isn't
> going to work for a phys_addr_t anyway). And <linux/mm.h> has this
> gem:
> 
>   __va(PFN_PHYS(page_to_pfn(page)));

Wow.  Two things spring to mind there... highmem pages, and don't we
already have page_address() for that?

> Anyway, I pulled your change to scsi_lib.c, since it's certainly no
> worse than what we used to have, but James and company cc'd too.

Thanks.  I do worry about all the other places which I also found -
but the first step is getting concensus on what the macro should be.

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