linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/dma: remove unnecessary BUG()

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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:21:45 +0100 (CET)
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/dma: remove unnecessary BUG()

Direction is already checked in all calling functions in
include/linux/dma-mapping.h and also in called function __dma_sync()

So really no need to check it once more here.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
index da20569de9d4..e1cd6e979348 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ static inline dma_addr_t dma_nommu_map_page(struct device *dev,
 					     enum dma_data_direction dir,
 					     unsigned long attrs)
 {
-	BUG_ON(dir == DMA_NONE);
-
 	if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC))
 		__dma_sync_page(page, offset, size, dir);
 
-- 
2.13.3