[PATCH v3 2/3] nvme: Pass pointers, not dma addresses, to nvme_get/set_features()

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Sep 16 01:41:21 PDT 2016


On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:24:20PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Any user I can imagine that needs a buffer at all will want to pass
> a pointer directly.  There are no currently callers that use
> buffers, so this change is painless, and it will make it much easier
> to start using features that use buffers (e.g. APST).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
> ---

Looks good mostly good, but a nitpick below:

> +	/*
> +	 * Casting buffer to void* is safe here: __nvme_submit_sync_cmd knows
> +	 * that we're writing because it decodes the opcode.
> +	 */
> +	ret = __nvme_submit_sync_cmd(dev->admin_q, &c, &cqe,
> +			(void *)buffer, buflen, 0, NVME_QID_ANY, 0, 0);

Cant we just drop the const annotation to avoid these casts?




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