linux-kernel - Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID block count and size helpers")

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Message-ID: <YpiqwDjCP0Am8kZV@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 2 Jun 2022 05:19:12 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Keisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@...ia.fr>,
        Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@...data.co.jp>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>,
        Vinay Kumar Yadav <vinay.yadav@...lsio.com>,
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        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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        Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.linux.kernel@...il.com>,
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        <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID
 block count and size helpers")

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 09:38:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> - dma_addr_t/phys_addr_t are sometimes put into hardware data
>   structures in coherent DMA allocations.

Putting a dma_addr_t into a hardware data structure is broken.
dma_addr_t is the in-memory type, for the hardare it should always
be a __le/__be type of the actual width that the particular piece
of hardware uses.