linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] scatterlist rust bindings

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Message-ID: <aCKsQSob4TNDZb99@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 10:19:45 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com>
Cc: dakr@...nel.org, lyude@...hat.com, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
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	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
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	"open list:DMA MAPPING HELPERS" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
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	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Michael Kelley <mhklinux@...look.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] scatterlist rust bindings

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:53:26PM +0300, Abdiel Janulgue wrote:
>
> Some questions still need to be resolved, which mostly come from
> the DeviceSGTable::dma_map() function. Primarily, what if you call
> bindings::dma_map_sgtable() on an already mapped sg_table? From my
> experiments it doesn't seem to do anything and no indication is returned if
> the call succeeded or not. Should we save the "mapping info" to a list
> everytime we call DeviceSGTable::dma_map more than once?

You should cc Christoph Hellwig on the DMA mapping API.

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