linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/16] dma-mapping: Introduce dma_map_sg

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Message-ID: <3c9ba6df-750a-3847-f1fc-8e41f533d1a2@deltatee.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:55:45 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
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        Minturn Dave B <dave.b.minturn@...el.com>,
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        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] dma-mapping: Introduce dma_map_sg_p2pdma()



On 2021-04-27 1:31 p.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:01:12AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * dma_maps_sg_attrs returns 0 on error and > 0 on success.
>> + * It should never return a value < 0.
>> + */
> 
> Also it is weird a function that can't return 0 is returning an int type

Yes, Christoph mentioned in the last series that this should probably
change to an unsigned but I wasn't really sure if that change should be
a part of the P2PDMA series.

>> +int dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents,
>> +		enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
>> +{
>> +	int ents;
>> +
>> +	ents = __dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, dir, attrs);
>>  	BUG_ON(ents < 0);
> 
> if (WARN_ON(ents < 0))
>      return 0;
> 
> instead of bug on?

It was BUG_ON in the original code. So I felt I should leave it.

> Also, I see only 8 users of this function. How about just fix them all
> to support negative returns and use this as the p2p API instead of
> adding new API?

Well there might be 8 users of dma_map_sg_attrs() but there are a very
large number of dma_map_sg(). Seems odd to me to single out the first as
requiring these changes, but leave the latter.

> Add the opposite logic flag, 'DMA_ATTRS_NO_ERROR' and pass it through
> the other api entry callers that can't handle it?

I'm not that opposed to this. But it will make this series a fair bit
longer to change the 8 map_sg_attrs() usages.

Logan