Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] block: blk-merge: don't merge the pages with non-contiguous descriptors

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 23:14 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:32:35AM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 12:07 +0530, Subhash Jadavani wrote:
> > 
> > > Now consider this call stack from MMC block driver (this is on the ARmv7 
> > > based board):
> > >      [   98.918174] [<c001b50c>] (v7_dma_inv_range+0x30/0x48) from 
> > > [<c0017b8c>] (dma_cache_maint_page+0x1c4/0x24c)
> > >      [   98.927819] [<c0017b8c>] (dma_cache_maint_page+0x1c4/0x24c) from 
> > > [<c0017c28>] (___dma_page_cpu_to_dev+0x14/0x1c)
> > >      [   98.937982] [<c0017c28>] (___dma_page_cpu_to_dev+0x14/0x1c) from 
> > > [<c0017ff8>] (dma_map_sg+0x3c/0x114)
> > 
> > OK, so this is showing that ARM itself is making the assumption that the
> > pages are contiguous in the page offset map.
> > 
> > Fix this by doing the increment via the pfn, which will do the right
> > thing whatever the memory model.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
> 
> Ok.  What would you like the patch summary line for this to be -
> the existing one seems to be a little wrong given the content of
> this patch...

how about

arm: fix struct page iterator in dma_cache_maint() to work with
sparsemem

?

James

> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > index 6b2fb87..ab88c5b 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void dma_cache_maint_page(struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
> >  			op(vaddr, len, dir);
> >  		}
> >  		offset = 0;
> > -		page++;
> > +		page = pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn(page) + 1);
> >  		left -= len;
> >  	} while (left);
> >  }
> > 
> > 
> > 
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