The patch titled
Documentation: add SCSI drivers' mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
documentation-add-scsi-drivers-mapping-error-handling-to-dma-api-howto.patch
Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Documentation: add SCSI drivers' mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Add the concrete DMA mapping error handling for SCSI drivers on the
queuecommand path.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt~documentation-add-scsi-drivers-mapping-error-handling-to-dma-api-howto Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt~documentation-add-scsi-drivers-mapping-error-handling-to-dma-api-howto
+++ a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -745,6 +745,10 @@ and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mappi
(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
the failure case.
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+
Closing
This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
scsi-add-__init-__exit-macros-to-ibmvstgtc.patch
ia64-remove-unnecessary-sync_single_range_-in-swiotlb_dma_ops.patch
x86-remove-unnecessary-sync_single_range_-in-swiotlb_dma_ops.patch
powerpc-remove-unnecessary-sync_single_range_-in-swiotlb_dma_ops.patch
swiotlb-remove-unnecessary-swiotlb_sync_single_range_.patch
dma-mapping-remove-unnecessary-sync_single_range_-in-dma_map_ops.patch
documentation-add-networking-drivers-mapping-error-handling-to-dma-api-howto.patch
documentation-add-scsi-drivers-mapping-error-handling-to-dma-api-howto.patch
documentation-update-scatterlist-struct-description-in-dma-api-howto.patch
documentation-move-the-error-handling-to-the-better-place-in-dma-api-howto.patch
ssb-add-dma_dev-to-ssb_device-structure.patch
b43legacy-replace-the-ssb_dma-api-with-the-generic-dma-api.patch
b43-replace-the-ssb_dma-api-with-the-generic-dma-api.patch
b44-replace-the-ssb_dma-api-with-the-generic-dma-api.patch
ssb-remove-the-ssb-dma-api.patch
asm-generic-remove-isa_dma_threshold-in-scatterlisth.patch
asm-generic-add-need_sg_dma_length-to-define-sg_dma_len.patch
x86_32-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
powerpc-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
alpha-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
asm-generic-remove-arch_has_sg_chain-in-scatterlisth.patch
avr32-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
cris-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
h8300-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
m32r-use-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
m68k-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
mips-use-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
xtensa-use-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
blackfin-use-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
frv-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
mn10300-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
parisc-use-asm-generic-scatterlisth.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
