Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > -		unsigned long addr = page_to_phys(s->page) +
> > > s->offset; 
> > > +		unsigned long addr = page_to_phys(sg_page(s)) +
> > > s->offset; 
> > 
> > Umm. May I suggest (I haven't read the whole thread yet, maybe
> > somebody else already did) that
> > 
> > 	static inline unsigned long sg_phys(struct scatterlist *sg)
> > 	{
> > 		return 	page_to_phys(sg_page(sg)) + sg->offset;
> > 	}
> > 
> > would be a good thing to have?
> > 
> > Very few drivers should care so much about the *page* itself (or the 
> > offset). That's something that the generic allocation code etc cares 
> > about, but the driver is almost bound to care mostly about the actual
> > DMA address
> 
> .... but will that work for systems with IOMMU ? or is it fundamentally
> the wrong interface

They use foo_to_bus() on the address. sg_phys() should of course only be
used where the user previously did page_to_phys() on the sg page.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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