linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: use phys_addr

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:14:26 +0100
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: use phys_addr_t for slave configuration

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:

> The documentation already says these are physical addresses, and
> we have concluded that any translation into the DMA address space
> needs to reside in the dmaengine driver, so change the type of
> the passed arguments.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/dmaengine.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/dmaengine.h b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> index 91ac8da..681df5f9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dmaengine.h
> @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ enum dma_slave_buswidth {
>   */
>  struct dma_slave_config {
>  	enum dma_transfer_direction direction;
> -	dma_addr_t src_addr;
> -	dma_addr_t dst_addr;
> +	phys_addr_t src_addr;
> +	phys_addr_t dst_addr;
>  	enum dma_slave_buswidth src_addr_width;
>  	enum dma_slave_buswidth dst_addr_width;
>  	u32 src_maxburst;

Makes a lot more sense.

Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/