[PATCH v9 16/18] arm,arm64: do not always merge biovec if we are running on Xen

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Wed Nov 6 07:40:04 EST 2013


On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > This is similar to what it is done on X86: biovecs are prevented from merging
> > otherwise every dma requests would be forced to bounce on the swiotlb buffer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> 
> 
> This is spewing 800+ warnings on ape6evm_defconfig on ARM that doesn't
> have CONFIG_BLOCK enabled, since struct bio_vec is protected by that
> in include/linux/blk_types.h. I guess it could be argued that those
> ifdefs could be removed, but still:
> 
> ../../arch/arm/include/asm/io.h:378:24: warning: its scope is only
> this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
> [enabled by default]
> In file included from ../../include/linux/scatterlist.h:10:0,
>                  from ../../include/linux/dmaengine.h:27,
>                  from ../../include/linux/skbuff.h:31,
>                  from ../../include/crypto/algapi.h:18,
>                  from ../../crypto/internal.h:16,
>                  from ../../crypto/cipher.c:21:
> ../../arch/arm/include/asm/io.h:378:24: warning: 'struct bio_vec'
> declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
>            const struct bio_vec *vec2);

Thanks for letting me know.
What about the following?


commit 06fc174ce8da30f81b59c9d1d7680a2490525884
Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 6 12:38:28 2013 +0000

    arm,arm64/include/asm/io.h: define struct bio_vec
    
    Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
index c45effc..3c597c2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ extern void pci_iounmap(struct pci_dev *dev, void __iomem *addr);
 #define BIOVEC_MERGEABLE(vec1, vec2)	\
 	((bvec_to_phys((vec1)) + (vec1)->bv_len) == bvec_to_phys((vec2)))
 
+struct bio_vec;
 extern bool xen_biovec_phys_mergeable(const struct bio_vec *vec1,
 				      const struct bio_vec *vec2);
 #define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE(vec1, vec2)				\
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
index c163287b..757c87a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ extern int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn);
  */
 #define xlate_dev_kmem_ptr(p)	p
 
+struct bio_vec;
 extern bool xen_biovec_phys_mergeable(const struct bio_vec *vec1,
 				      const struct bio_vec *vec2);
 #define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE(vec1, vec2)				\



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