Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 6 authors, 2019-06-03

RE: [PATCH v3 5/6] dpaa_eth: fix iova handling for contiguous frames

From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Date: 2019-05-31 16:53:25
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-iommu, linuxppc-dev, lkml

Hi Christoph,
-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 7:32 PM

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:19:50PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com wrote:
quoted
+static phys_addr_t dpaa_iova_to_phys(const struct dpaa_priv *priv,
+				     dma_addr_t addr)
+{
+	return priv->domain ? iommu_iova_to_phys(priv->domain, addr) : addr;
+}
Again, a driver using the iommu API must not call iommu_* APIs.

This chane is not acceptable.
Unfortunately due to our hardware particularities we do not have alternatives. This is also the case for our next generation of ethernet drivers [1]. I'll let my colleagues that work on the ethernet drivers to comment more on this.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c#n37

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Best Regards, Laurentiu
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