Re: [PATCH 04/10] swiotlb: remove the overflow buffer

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:02:40AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Like all other dma mapping drivers just return an error code instead
> of an actual memory buffer.  The reason for the overflow buffer was
> that at the time swiotlb was invented there was no way to check for
> dma mapping errors, but this has long been fixed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c       |  2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-swiotlb.c |  4 +--
>  include/linux/dma-direct.h        |  2 ++
>  include/linux/swiotlb.h           |  3 --
>  kernel/dma/direct.c               |  2 --
>  kernel/dma/swiotlb.c              | 59 ++-----------------------------
>  6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

I went through the patches and they look fine to me (with the vunmap
fix for the last patch). For the arm64 bits:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>