Re: [PATCH V2 3/4] misc: vop: simply return the saved dma address instead of virt_to_phys

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:10:12PM +0000, Sherry Sun wrote:
> > >  	if (!offset) {
> > > -		*pa = virt_to_phys(vpdev->hw_ops->get_dp(vpdev));
> > > +		if (vpdev->hw_ops->get_dp_dma)
> > > +			*pa = vpdev->hw_ops->get_dp_dma(vpdev);
> > > +		else {
> > > +			dev_err(vop_dev(vdev), "can't get device page
> > physical address\n");
> > > +			return -EINVAL;
> > > +		}
> > 
> > I don't think we need the NULL check here.  Wouldn't it also make sense to
> > return the virtual and DMA address from ->get_dp instead of adding another
> > method?
> 
> Do you mean that we should only change the original ->get_dp callback to return virtual
> and DMA address at the same time, instead of adding the ->get_dp_dma callback?

That was my intention when writing it, yes.  But it seems like most
other callers don't care.  Maybe move the invocation of
dma_mmap_coherent into a new ->mmap helper, that way it seems like
the calling code doesn't need to know about the dma_addr_t at all.

That being said the layering in the code keeps puzzling me.  As far as
I can tell only a single instance of struct vop_driver even exists, so
we might be able to kill all the indirections entirely.