On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 11:42 -0400, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 08:36:34AM -0700, Michael Zoran wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 11:31 -0400, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 08:16:51AM -0700, Michael Zoran wrote: > > > > The conversion to dma_map_sg left a few loose ends. This > > > > change > > > > ties up those loose ends. > > > > > > > > 1. Settings the DMA mask is mandatory on 64 bit even though it > > > > is optional on 32 bit. Set the mask so that DMA space is > > > > always > > > > in the lower 32 bit range of data on both platforms. > > > > > > > > 2. The scatterlist was not completely initialized correctly. > > > > Initialize the list with sg_init_table so that DMA works > > > > correctly > > > > if scatterlist debugging is enabled in the build configuration. > > > > > > > > 3. The error paths in create_pagelist were not > > > > consistent. Make > > > > them all consistent by calling a helper function called > > > > cleanup_pagelistinfo to cleanup regardless of what state the > > > > pagelist > > > > is in. > > > > > > > > 4. create_pagelist and free_pagelist had a very large amount of > > > > duplication in computing offsets into a single allocation of > > > > memory > > > > in the DMA area. Introduce a new structure called the > > > > pagelistinfo > > > > that is appened to the end of the allocation to store necessary > > > > information to prevent duplication of code and make cleanup on > > > > errors > > > > easier. > > > > > > > > When combined with a fix for vchiq_copy_from_user which is not > > > > included at this time, both functional and pings tests of > > > > vchiq_test > > > > now pass in both 32 bit and 64 bit modes. > > > > > > > > Even though this cleanup could have been broken down to chunks, > > > > all the changes are to a single file and submitting it as a > > > > single > > > > related change should make reviewing the diff much easier then > > > > if > > > > it > > > > were submitted piecemeal. > > > > > > No, it's harder. A patch should only do one type of thing, this > > > patch > > > has to be reviewed thinking of 4 different things all at once, > > > making > > > it > > > much more difficult to do so. > > > > > > We write patches to be read easily, and make them easy to > > > review. We > > > don't write them in a way to be easy for the developer to create > > > :) > > > > > > Can you please break this up into a patch series? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > Point #1 and #2 would be very easy to seperate. Point #3 and #4 > > are > > essentually a redo of two major functions and are where most of the > > changes are. > > > > Would making #1 and #2 independent but combining #3 and #4 > > sufficient? > > I don't know, try it and see what the patches look like. > > Think about it from my point of view, which would be easier to > review? > > thanks, > > greg k-h
Greg, I totally agree with you here and I understand your point of view. I'm wondering if it would be best to have me reword the description to say that I completely rewrote a section of the file. And essentially consider it a ground up rewrite rather then a change. Eric had some complaints about the way that specific section of the code is structured, so maybe a rewrite is best. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
