Re: [PATCH 08/13] net: convert drivers to paged frag API.

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On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:12 +0100, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:17:28 +0100
> 
> > -				put_dma(tx->index,eni_dev->dma,&j,(unsigned long)
> > -				    skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page + skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page_offset,
> > +				put_dma(tx->index,eni_dev->dma,&j,
> > +				    (unsigned long)skb_frag_address(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]),
> 
> This is not an equivalent transformation.
> 
> skb_frag_address() does a page_address() on the frag page, but that is
> not what the code was doing here previously.
> 
> It's possible the code was buggy, but you can't do a fix like that
> amidst what is supposed to be a semantically NOP transformation.

Ouch, you are absolutely right, I didn't spot that, sorry.

The original code does look pretty bogus though, indexing off a struct
page * like that -- CC'ing the ATM maintainer + list.

Ian.

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