On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 05:03:43PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:48:33PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Why can't we just resolve the conflict by adding the underscores?
> 
> We can solve the conflict easily that way.  But that's not the point.
> 
> The point is that I've been fighting hard to consolidate dma code
> given that the behavior really is common and not arch specific.  And
> this one is another case like that:  the fact that the non-coherent
> dma boundary is bigger than the exposed size is something that can
> easily happen elsewhere, so there is no need to duplicate a lot
> of code for that.

Fair enough, although I wouldn't say it's a *lot* of code being duplicated.
Are there other architectures working around this issue too? I couldn't
see anything in the other dma-direct.h headers.

> Nevermind that the commit should at least be three different patches:
> 
>  (1) revert the broken original commit
>  (2) increase the dma min alignment
>  (3) put the swiotlb workaround in place

I'd agree with you if this wasn't already queued and sitting in -next.
Reverting what we currently have seems a bit OTT now. Catalin?

Will
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