Re: [PATCH 3/3] dma-debug: unexport dma_debug_resize_entries and debug_dma_dump_mappings

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 06:42:46 EST


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 11:05:20AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 24/04/18 15:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Only used by the AMD GART driver, which must be built in.
>
> FWIW debug_dma_dump_mappings() is also called by the Intel VT-d driver, but
> the same reasoning still applies.

I'll update the changelog.

> This does rather beg the question of
> whether it's right to have bits of low-level dma-debug internals *only*
> called by a couple of IOMMU drivers, but that can wait for another day.

My gut feeling is that it is wrong, but I didn't have time to look into
the details and history of how this happened.