[GIT PULL] OMAP: mailbox and iommu changes: for-next for v2.6.38

Guzman Lugo, Fernando fernando.lugo at ti.com
Mon Dec 13 20:37:32 EST 2010


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 05:02:12PM -0600, Guzman Lugo, Fernando wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Kanigeri, Hari <h-kanigeri2 at ti.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:16:23AM -0600, Kanigeri, Hari wrote:
>> >>> Ruseell,
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando
>> >>> <fernando.lugo at ti.com> wrote:
>> >>> > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> >>> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> >>> >> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:50:07AM -0600, Guzman Lugo, Fernando wrote:
>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> >>> >>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> >>> >>> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:07:23AM -0600, Kanigeri, Hari wrote:
>> >>> >>> >> Hi Tony,
>> >>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>> >> The following changes since commit e8a7e48bb248a1196484d3f8afa53bded2b24e71:
>> >>> >>> >>   Linus Torvalds (1):
>> >>> >>> >>         Linux 2.6.37-rc4
>> >>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>> >> are available in the git repository at:
>> >>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>> >>   git://gitorious.org/iommu_mailbox/iommu_mailbox.git for_2.6.38
>> >>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>> >> Fernando Guzman Lugo (5):
>> >>> >>> >>       OMAP: mailbox: change full flag per mailbox queue instead of global
>> >>> >>> >>       omap: iovmm - no gap checking for fixed address
>> >>> >>> >>       omap: iovmm - add superpages support to fixed da address
>> >>> >>> >>       omap: iovmm - replace __iounmap with omap_iounmap
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > This change is wrong.  Nothing should be directly referencing omap_iounmap
>> >>> >>> > nor for that matter omap_ioremap.  Both are implementation details of the
>> >>> >>> > standard ioremap/iounmap APIs.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > Use the official APIs rather than the implementation details behind them.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> if you see where the function is used, you will see that it is not
>> >>> >>> calling the function, it is use as a parameter in unmap_vm_area(), if
>> >>> >>> I used iounmap which is a macro there I will get a compilation error.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hmm, yes, because iounmap() is defined as a macro rather than iounmap.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> The solution to this is to fix iounmap and __arch_iounmap macros so
>> >>> >> they aren't macros which take arguments.  That will then allow them
>> >>> >> to be used in the way you desire.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > yes, that way it can be used in the function parameter. what is the
>> >>> > right thing to do?
>> >>> > 1) You send your patch and then I send the new version of the patches.
>> >>> > 2) I make a new series of the patches with the change to iounmap and I
>> >>> > include your patch in the series.
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you please suggest the approach we take here ? So, either you send
>> >>> your suggested change as a patch and Fernando's patch will be based on
>> >>> it, or he can take a TODO action item to patch again if you plan to
>> >>> send this change later.
>> >>
>> >> Right, the patches are in my git tree, under the 'io' branch:
>> >>
>> >>  http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.git io
>>
>>
>> I tried to clone it but after sometime it fails, I tried to used
>> git:// but it did not work and know behind a http proxy it is getting
>> "The requested URL returned error: 500" do someone know if I need
>> something special to clone it?
>
> Sigh.
>
> Someone has helpfully upgraded apache on the machine at about 8pm, but
> failed to check that it was running afterwards (it's now midnight.)
>
> I've just restarted it, so it should work now.

Thanks it is working now :).

Regards,
Fernando.

>



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