Re: [PATCH v2 27/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add smp protocol support

[John Garry]

On 02/11/2015 20:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 02 November 2015 17:03:58 John Garry wrote:
> > > Can do. Actually sg_req seems only ever has one element:
> > > expander.c, smp_execute_task()
> > > sg_init_one(&task->smp_task.smp_req, req, req_size);
> > I tried replacing with dma_map_single, but I feel the code is not as
> > clean as I need to manually set sg_dma_len() and sg_dma_address():
> >       req_len = sg_dma_len(sg_req) = sg_req->length;
> >       sg_dma_address(sg_req) = dma_map_single(dev, sg_virt(sg_req),
> >                                           req_len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> >       if (dma_mapping_error(dev, sg_dma_address(sg_req)))
> >            return -ENOMEM;
> > sg_dma_address(sg_req) is used in another function for unmap.
> >
> > opinion?
>
> What I meant was not using a struct scatterlist at all:
> replace the 'sg_req' variable with a normal pointer, and then
> do
>
> 	hdr->cmd_table_addr = cpu_to_le64(dma_map_single(dev, req, len, DMA_TO_DEVICE));
>
> Any reason this won't work?
>
> 	Arnd
>
> .
There seems to be some misunderstanding. Are you suggesting I change 
sas_smp_task?
./include/scsi/libsas.h
struct sas_smp_task {
	struct scatterlist smp_req;
	struct scatterlist smp_resp;
};

thanks,
John

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