On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:46:03AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 03/03/2017 08:39 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > On Friday 03 Mar 2017 10:56:54 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:44:38PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >>> Now that we call dma_map in the dma_buf API callbacks there is no need
> >>> to use the existing cache APIs. Remove the sync ioctl and the existing
> >>> bad dma_sync calls. Explicit caching can be handled with the dma_buf
> >>> sync API.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 5 ----
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 40 --------------------
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c | 6 ----
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c | 6 ----
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c | 3 --
> >>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 5 ----
> >>> 6 files changed, 65 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
> >>> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c index 5b2e93f..f820d77 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
> >>> @@ -146,11 +146,6 @@ long ion_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
> >>> unsigned long arg)>
> >>> data.handle.handle = handle->id;
> >>>
> >>> break;
> >>>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> - case ION_IOC_SYNC:
> >>> - {
> >>> - ret = ion_sync_for_device(client, data.fd.fd);
> >>> - break;
> >>> - }
> >>
> >> You missed the case ION_IOC_SYNC: in compat_ion.c.
> >>
> >> While at it: Should we also remove the entire custom_ioctl infrastructure?
> >> It's entirely unused afaict, and for a pure buffer allocator I don't see
> >> any need to have custom ioctl.
> >
> > I second that, if you want to make ion a standard API, then we certainly don't
> > want any custom ioctl.
> >
> >> More code to remove potentially:
> >> - The entire compat ioctl stuff - would be an abi break, but I guess if we
> >> pick the 32bit abi and clean up the uapi headers we'll be mostly fine.
> >> would allow us to remove compat_ion.c entirely.
> >>
> >> - ION_IOC_IMPORT: With this ion is purely an allocator, so not sure we
> >> still need to be able to import anything. All the cache flushing/mapping
> >> is done through dma-buf ops/ioctls.
> >>
> >>
>
> Good point to all of the above. I was considering keeping the import around
> for backwards compatibility reasons but given how much other stuff is being
> potentially broken, everything should just get ripped out.
If you're ok with breaking the world, then I strongly suggest we go
through the uapi header and replace all types with the standard
fixed-width ones (__s32, __s64 and __u32, __u64). Allows us to remove all
the compat ioctl code :-)
-Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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