Re: [PATCH] media: vb2: dma-sg allocator: change scatterlist allocation method

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Hi Marek,

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:34:56 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:42 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 August 2011 07:35:05 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > > On Friday, August 12, 2011 11:55 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 10:23:37 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > > > > From: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Scatter-gather lib provides a helper functions to allocate scatter
> > > > > list, so there is no need to use vmalloc for it. sg_alloc_table()
> > > > > splits allocation into page size chunks and links them together
> > > > > into a chain.
> > > > 
> > > > Last time I check ARM platforms didn't support SG list chaining. Has
> > > > that been fixed ?
> > > 
> > > DMA-mapping code for ARM platform use for_each_sg() macro which has no
> > > problems with chained SG lists.
> > 
> > for_each_sg() is fine, but sg_alloc_table() doesn't seem to be.
> > __sg_alloc_table(), called from sg_alloc_table(), starts with
> > 
> > #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
> > 
> >         BUG_ON(nents > max_ents);
> > 
> > #endif
> > 
> > It also calls sg_chain() internally, which starts with
> > 
> > #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
> > 
> >         BUG();
> > 
> > #endif
> > 
> > ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN is defined on ARM if CONFIG_ARM_HAS_SG_CHAIN is set.
> > That's a boolean Kconfig option that is currently never set.
> 
> Right, I wasn't aware of that, but it still doesn't look like an issue. The
> only client of dma-sg allocator is marvell-ccic, which is used on x86
> systems. If one needs dma-sg allocator on ARM, he should follow the
> suggestion from the 74facffeca3795ffb5cf8898f5859fbb822e4c5d commit message.

Won't the dma-sg allocator be the right one for systems with an IOMMU ? If so 
we'll soon run into this issue. I'd like to port the OMAP3 ISP driver to 
videobuf2.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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