linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] dma: compile-out DMA sync op calls when not used

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:14:06 +0000
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
 Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
 Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
 Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] dma: compile-out DMA sync op calls when not
 used

On 31/01/2024 4:52 pm, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 02:54:50PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>> Some platforms do have DMA, but DMA there is always direct and coherent.
>> Currently, even on such platforms DMA sync operations are compiled and
>> called.
>> Add a new hidden Kconfig symbol, DMA_NEED_SYNC, and set it only when
>> either sync operations are needed or there is DMA ops or swiotlb
>> enabled. Set dma_need_sync() and dma_skip_sync() (stub for now)
>> depending on this symbol state and don't call sync ops when
>> dma_skip_sync() is true.
>> The change allows for future optimizations of DMA sync calls depending
>> on compile-time or runtime conditions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> This seems to cause x86_64 allmodconfig builds to fail:

Oh yeah, the sync_single_range definitions shouldn't need touching at 
all, since they're unconditional wrappers around regular sync_single 
invocations (which already may or may not do anything).

Thanks,
Robin.

> 
>   ../drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp/ispstat.c:82:35: error: ‘dma_sync_single_range_for_device’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘dma_sync_sgtable_for_device’?
>      82 |                                   dma_sync_single_range_for_device);
>         |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         |                                   dma_sync_sgtable_for_device
>   ../drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp/ispstat.c:82:35: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>   ../drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp/ispstat.c: In function ‘isp_stat_buf_sync_magic_for_cpu’:
>   ../drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp/ispstat.c:94:35: error: ‘dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu’?
>      94 |                                   dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu);
>         |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         |                                   dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu