On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:52:05AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 07:04:18PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This way we have one central definition of it, and user can select it as > > needed. Note that we also add a second ARCH_HAS_SWIOTLB symbol to > > indicate the architecture supports swiotlb at all, so that we can still > > make the usage optional for a few architectures that want this feature > > to be user selectable. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > Hmm, this looks like we end up with NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH=y on ARM by > default, which probably isn't a good idea - ARM pre-dates the dma_length > parameter in scatterlists, and I don't think all code is guaranteed to > do the right thing if this is enabled. We shouldn't end up with NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH=y on ARM by default. It is only select by ARM_DMA_USE_IOMMU before the patch, and it will now also be selected by SWIOTLB, which for arm is never used or seleted directly by anything but xen-swiotlb. Then again looking at the series there shouldn't be any need to even select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH for swiotlb, as we'll never merge segments, so I'll fix that up.
