linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Missing critical phys_to

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Date:	Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:08:58 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Moore <dcm@....edu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, discuss@...-64.org,
	linux1394-devel <linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing critical phys_to_virt in lib/swiotlb.c

I wrote:
> Unfortunately an author of lib/swiotlb.c chose to call many variables
> holding *virtual* addresses "dma_addr". Note how that file at the same
> time contains variables like "dma_addr_t dma_handle".

And there is even one occurrence of a "dma_addr" holding a physical
address/ bus address, unlike the other dma_addr's:
int
swiotlb_dma_mapping_error(dma_addr_t dma_addr)
{
	return (dma_addr == virt_to_phys(io_tlb_overflow_buffer));
}
-- 
Stefan Richter
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