1. 06 Aug, 2010 1 commit
    • FUJITA Tomonori's avatar
      [SCSI] 53c700: remove dma_is_consistent usage · f3506b75
      FUJITA Tomonori authored
      This driver is the only user of dma_is_consistent(). We plan to remove
      this API.
      
      The driver uses the API in the following way:
      
      BUG_ON(!dma_is_consistent(hostdata->dev, pScript) && L1_CACHE_BYTES < dma_get_cache_alignment());
      
      The above code tries to see if L1_CACHE_BYTES is greater than
      dma_get_cache_alignment() on sysmtes that can not allocate coherent
      memory (some old systems can't).
      
      James Bottomley exmplained that this is necesary because the driver
      packs the set of mailboxes into a single coherent area and separates
      the different usages by a L1 cache stride. So it's fatal if the dma
      coherence stride is greater than the L1 cache size.
      
      He also pointed out that we can kill this checking because we don't
      hit this BUG_ON on all architectures that actually use the driver.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
      f3506b75
  2. 05 Aug, 2010 39 commits