linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 5/9] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: slave address are physical

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:30:20 +0200
From:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:	Niklas Söderlund 
	<niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
Cc:	vinod.koul@...el.com, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	robin.murphy@....com, geert+renesas@...der.be,
	linus.walleij@...aro.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/9] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: slave address are physical

Hi Niklas,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tuesday 08 March 2016 03:42:50 Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Slave addresses coming from a client is physical not dma. Store the
> address using the correct data type. This is in preparation for hooking
> up the dma-mapping API to the slave addresses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> index 7820d07..01cf82f 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> @@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ struct rcar_dmac_chan {
> 
>  	unsigned int src_xfer_size;
>  	unsigned int dst_xfer_size;
> -	dma_addr_t src_slave_addr;
> -	dma_addr_t dst_slave_addr;
> +	phys_addr_t src_slave_addr;
> +	phys_addr_t dst_slave_addr;

This moves the cast from phys_addr_t to dma_addr_t from the driver's DMA 
engine operations to other places. I'm not sure there's much value in doing 
so. I'd squash this patch with 7/9, the result will be easier to review.

>  	int mid_rid;
> 
>  	spinlock_t lock;

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart