linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] PCI: Add pci_find_common_upstream

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Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:33:34 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
Cc:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] PCI: Add pci_find_common_upstream_dev()

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 09:58:54PM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> dma_map_resource() is the right API (thought its current implementation
> is fill with x86 assumptions). So i would argue that arch can decide to
> implement it or simply return dma error address which trigger fallback
> path into the caller (at least for GPU drivers). SG variant can be added
> on top.

It isn't in general.  It doesn't integrate with scatterlists (see my
comment to page one), and it doesn't integrate with all the subsystems
that also need a kernel virtual address.