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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>,
	hch@lst.de, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, jeremy.linton@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] dma-pool: Get rid of dma_in_atomic_pool()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:50:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710065054.GA19416@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2007091449540.972523@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 02:51:13PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> 
> > The function is only used once and can be simplified to a one-liner.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
> 
> I'll leave this one to Christoph to decide on.  One thing I really liked 
> about hacking around in kernel/dma is the coding style, it really follows 
> "one function does one thing and does it well" even if there is only one 
> caller.  dma_in_atomic_pool() was an attempt to follow in those footsteps.

While I like the helper aswell, I don't see how it could work nicely
with the changes in patch 4.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-09 16:19 [PATCH 0/4] dma-pool: Fix atomic pool selection Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-09 16:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] dma-direct: Provide function to check physical memory area validity Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-09 16:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] dma-pool: Get rid of dma_in_atomic_pool() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-09 21:51   ` David Rientjes
2020-07-10  6:50     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-07-09 16:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] dma-pool: Introduce dma_guess_pool() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-14 11:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 11:40     ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-09 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] dma-pool: Make sure atomic pool suits device Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-10 18:52 ` [PATCH 0/4] dma-pool: Fix atomic pool selection Jeremy Linton

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