linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 0/8] unify dma_addr_t typedef (CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T

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Date:	Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:09:48 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/8] unify dma_addr_t typedef
 (CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT)

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:51:31 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> There are about twenty architectures have the own dma_addr_t typedef
> because include/asm-generic/types.h can't be perfect (some of them can
> use it though):
> 
> #ifndef dma_addr_t
> #ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> typedef u64 dma_addr_t;
> #else
> typedef u32 dma_addr_t;
> #endif /* CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT */
> #endif /* dma_addr_t */
> 
> Another problem is that there is a way to determine if dma_addr_t is
> 64-bit. We see hopeless tricks like the following:
> 
> #if (defined(__i386__) && defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G)) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined (__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) || defined(__mips64__) || (defined(__mips__) && defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT_PHYS_ADDR))
> 
> This clean up the mess with introducing CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
> define (like CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT).
> 
> If architecture needs 64bit dma_addr_t, it must enable
> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT.
> 
> The summary are:
> 
> - always 64bit
> -- alpha
> -- ia64
> -- tile
> 
> - conditionally 64bit
> -- x86
> -- mips
> -- powerpc
> -- s390
> 
> - always 32bit
> -- arm
> -- avr32
> -- cris
> -- frv
> -- h8300
> -- m32r
> -- m68k
> -- mn10300
> -- parisc
> -- xtensa
> -- sparc
> -- blackfin
> -- microblaze
> -- score
> -- sh

Am I correct in believing that we can merge the first seven patches
into arch trees at any time and, once they are all merged, patch 8/8
can then go into mainline?

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