linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/11] swiotlb-xen: simplify cache maintainance

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Message-ID: <ca88e7b8-08ca-51b2-0c77-c828d92da0db@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:19:01 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] swiotlb-xen: simplify cache maintainance

On 9/6/19 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:52:12AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> We need nop definitions of these two for x86.
>>
>> Everything builds now but that's probably because the calls are under
>> 'if (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev))' which is always false so compiler
>> optimized is out. I don't think we should rely on that.
> That is how a lot of the kernel works.  Provide protypes only for code
> that is semantically compiled, but can't ever be called due to
> IS_ENABLED() checks.  It took me a while to get used to it, but it
> actually is pretty nice as the linker does the work for you to check
> that it really is never called.  Much better than say a BUILD_BUG_ON().


(with corrected Juergen's email)

I know about IS_ENABLED() but I didn't realize that this is allowed for
compile-time inlines and such as well.

Anyway, for non-ARM bits

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>

If this goes via Xen tree then the first couple of patches need an ack
from ARM maintainers.

-boris