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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:02:13 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 60381fd1ee86 - main - memdesc: Retire MEMDESC_CCB.
Message-ID:  <92656b28-8bfa-23a9-2683-23ccb817b8a7@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpcbqgEV6Exuj-eGcr9yWuDHcdDvXfK4FZQVZCO8BwcjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/17/23 10:58 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:54 AM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:29:20AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:15 AM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/17/23 8:48 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 06:41:03PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>> The branch main has been updated by jhb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> URL:
>>>>
>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=60381fd1ee8668ea1e4676a6128883d987cab858
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit 60381fd1ee8668ea1e4676a6128883d987cab858
>>>>>> Author:     John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>>> AuthorDate: 2023-07-14 18:30:31 +0000
>>>>>> Commit:     John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>>> CommitDate: 2023-07-14 18:32:16 +0000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       memdesc: Retire MEMDESC_CCB.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       Instead, change memdesc_ccb to examine the CCB and return a
>>>> memdesc of
>>>>>>       a more generic type describing the data buffer.
>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c b/sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c
>>>>>> index 65a08aeba17c..bfaad30b37d3 100644
>>>>>> --- a/sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c
>>>>>> +++ b/sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c
>>>>>> @@ -304,94 +304,6 @@ bus_dmamap_load_ma_triv(bus_dma_tag_t dmat,
>>>> bus_dmamap_t map,
>>>>>> @@ -566,49 +478,18 @@ bus_dmamap_load_ccb(bus_dma_tag_t dmat,
>>>> bus_dmamap_t map, union ccb *ccb,
>>>>>> +    mem = memdesc_ccb(ccb);
>>>>>> +    return (bus_dmamap_load_mem(dmat, map, &mem, callback,
>>>> callback_arg,
>>>>>> +        flags));
>>>>>>    }
>>>>> This makes kernel not linkable if CAM is not included into it.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, ok.  I can either move the memdesc_ccb routine into sys/kern
>>>> somewhere
>>>> (like the kern_memdesc.c file in my other pending review), or we can
>> #ifdef
>>>> this function.  It probably doesn't make sense to have a
>>>> bus_dmamap_load_ccb
>>>> if you don't have CAM, so I think I prefer the second option.
>>>>
>>>
>>> MINIMAL doesn't have CAM configured, but it is loadable as a module.
>>>
>>> I'd think we'd want a dummy one fo these with weak symbol binding and
>> have
>>> the actual
>>> one live in cam somewhere that overrides this  symbol.
>> The symbol resolution does not work this way in kernel.  And it cannot
>> made working this way even in theory, because cam.ko is loadable at
>> runtime.
>>
> 
> Yea... It could, if we have perfect knowledge of all the places that it is
> called.
> But I don't think we do, now that I think about it... so yes, it's good to
> want things,
> but in this case my desire cannot exist, I agree.
> 
> 
>> I believe the only feasible solution is to move memdesc_ccb() into kernel
>> unconditionally.
>>
> 
> Or if it was in cam.h and made a static inline. It's short enough that
> won't bloat
> the kernel in the half a dozen places its called, and it would give similar
> performance
> to what we have today with the half a dozen nearly identical copies of
> this routine.
> And since it's all done with structure dancing, there's no other bits of
> CAM that would
> be brought into the kernel.

I would be happy with an inline actually, I wasn't sure originally if that was
too invasive in terms of the header bloat it would entail, in particular if it
lived in sys/memdesc.h, but maybe it could live in cam_ccb.h?

-- 
John Baldwin




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