Re: [RFC 00/17] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents vs. orig_nents misuse

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On 2020-04-28 4:32 pm, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:02:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:19:48PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
1. introduce a dma_{map,sync,unmap}_sgtable() wrappers, which will use
    a proper sg_table entries and call respective DMA-mapping functions
    and adapt current code to it

That sounds reasonable to me.  Those could be pretty trivial wrappers.



2. rename nents and orig_nents to nr_pages, nr_dmas to clearly state
    which one refers to which part of the scatterlist; I'm open for
    other names for those entries

nr_cpu_ents and nr_dma_ents might be better names, but it still would be
a whole lot of churn for little gain.  I think just good wrappers like
suggested above might be more helpful.

I guess long-term we could aim for both? I.e. roll out better wrappers
first, once that's soaked through the tree, rename the last offenders.

Yes, that's what I was thinking too - most of these uses are just passing them in and out of the DMA APIs, and thus would be subsumed into the wrappers anyway, then in the relatively few remaining places where the table is actually iterated for one reason or the other, renaming would stand to help review and maintenance in terms of making it far more obvious when the implementation and the intent don't match.

Robin.
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