Re: [RFC 00/17] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents vs. orig_nents misuse

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 10:03:02 EST


On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:19:48PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 1. introduce a dma_{map,sync,unmap}_sgtable() wrappers, which will use
> a proper sg_table entries and call respective DMA-mapping functions
> and adapt current code to it

That sounds reasonable to me. Those could be pretty trivial wrappers.

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> 2. rename nents and orig_nents to nr_pages, nr_dmas to clearly state
> which one refers to which part of the scatterlist; I'm open for
> other names for those entries

nr_cpu_ents and nr_dma_ents might be better names, but it still would be
a whole lot of churn for little gain. I think just good wrappers like
suggested above might be more helpful.