[PATCH] NVME: Fix CMB types
Jon Derrick
jonathan.derrick at intel.com
Mon Jan 9 13:55:18 PST 2017
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 09:18:17AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 03:18:51PM -0700, Jon Derrick wrote:
> > ioremapping and the Create SQes command expect a phys_addr_t, so convert
> > current usages of dma_addr_t to this type. Also break out the current
> > reuse of sq_dma_addr into dma and physical addresses, depending on if
> > CMB is being used for SQes.
> >
> > Reported by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg at mellanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick at intel.com>
> > ---
> > Hope this is a good stopgap until we get a more formalized CMB
> > management code. Also I don't know whose tree we are using now, so this
> > applies to axboe/master
>
> I don't really like the helper with the if - what's the point of having
> two variables with different types if we the only user does an implicit
> cast to another type. Maybe we should use use u64 instead of either
> dma_addr_t or phys_addr_t and add a comment explaining why we do this?
That's good too. Barring no other issues I'll resend in a few days.
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