linux-kernel - Re: [V2 PATCH 2/5] arm64 : Introduce support for ACPI

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Message-ID: <554A2671.8020804@amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 09:34:25 -0500
From:	Suravee Suthikulanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
To:	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	"rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"thomas.lendacky@....com" <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	"herbert@...dor.apana.org.au" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"al.stone@...aro.org" <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
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	"msalter@...hat.com" <msalter@...hat.com>,
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	"linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH 2/5] arm64 : Introduce support for ACPI _CCA object

On 5/6/2015 5:08 AM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> [...]
>> +static void __dummy_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
>> +                    dma_addr_t dev_addr, size_t size,
>> +                    enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void __dummy_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev,
>> +                       dma_addr_t dev_addr, size_t size,
>> +                       enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +}
>
> Minor point, but I don't see the need to have multiple dummy functions
> with identical signatures - just have a generic dummy_sync_single and
> assign it to both ops.
>
>> +static void __dummy_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
>> +                    struct scatterlist *sgl, int nelems,
>> +                    enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void __dummy_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev,
>> +                       struct scatterlist *sgl, int nelems,
>> +                       enum dma_data_direction dir)
>> +{
>> +}
>
> Ditto here with dummy_sync_sg.

Hi Robin,

Good point. I'll take care of that in V3.

>
> I wonder if there's any argument for putting the dummy DMA ops somewhere
> common, like drivers/base/dma-mapping.c?
>
> Robin.

Hm.. If this approach will be adopted by other architectures, then it 
would make sense. Currently, this is only used by arm64. So, I think it 
is okay to leave this here for now.

Thanks,
Suravee

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