linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v3 5/6] dpaa_eth: fix iova handling for contiguous frames

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 16:53:16 +0000
From:   Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@....com>,
        Camelia Alexandra Groza <camelia.groza@....com>,
        Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jocke@...inera.com" <joakim.tjernlund@...inera.com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 5/6] dpaa_eth: fix iova handling for contiguous frames

Hi Christoph,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 7:32 PM
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:19:50PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@....com wrote:
> > +static phys_addr_t dpaa_iova_to_phys(const struct dpaa_priv *priv,
> > +				     dma_addr_t addr)
> > +{
> > +	return priv->domain ? iommu_iova_to_phys(priv->domain, addr) : addr;
> > +}
> 
> Again, a driver using the iommu API must not call iommu_* APIs.
> 
> This chane is not acceptable.

Unfortunately due to our hardware particularities we do not have alternatives. This is also the case for our next generation of ethernet drivers [1]. I'll let my colleagues that work on the ethernet drivers to comment more on this.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c#n37

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Best Regards, Laurentiu