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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2008-02-19 11:36:56 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-02-19 11:36:56 +0100
commitdde2020754aeb14e17052d61784dcb37f252aac2 (patch)
tree1b6d57c6eff2024fd13e4b3b115d0a6770d8cb80 /drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c
parentdb0a2e0099be3a1cff55879225881465f16c67d3 (diff)
libata: eliminate the home grown dma padding in favour of
that provided by the block layer ATA requires that all DMA transfers begin and end on word boundaries. Because of this, a large amount of machinery grew up in ide to adjust scatterlists on this basis. However, as of 2.5, the block layer has a dma_alignment variable which ensures both the beginning and length of a DMA transfer are aligned on the dma_alignment boundary. Although the block layer does adjust the beginning of the transfer to ensure this happens, it doesn't actually adjust the length, it merely makes sure that space is allocated for transfers beyond the declared length. The upshot of this is that scatterlists may be padded to any size between the actual length and the length adjusted to the dma_alignment safely knowing that memory is allocated in this region. Right at the moment, SCSI takes the default dma_aligment which is on a 512 byte boundary. Note that this aligment only applies to transfers coming in from user space. However, since all kernel allocations are automatically aligned on a minimum of 32 byte boundaries, it is safe to adjust them in this manner as well. tj: * Adjusting sg after padding is done in block layer. Make libata set queue alignment correctly for ATAPI devices and drop broken sg mangling from ata_sg_setup(). * Use request->raw_data_len for ATAPI transfer chunk size. * Killed qc->raw_nbytes. * Separated out killing qc->n_iter. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c13
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c b/drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c
index efcb66b6cce..9323dd0c7d8 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c
@@ -601,21 +601,9 @@ static int sata_fsl_port_start(struct ata_port *ap)
if (!pp)
return -ENOMEM;
- /*
- * allocate per command dma alignment pad buffer, which is used
- * internally by libATA to ensure that all transfers ending on
- * unaligned boundaries are padded, to align on Dword boundaries
- */
- retval = ata_pad_alloc(ap, dev);
- if (retval) {
- kfree(pp);
- return retval;
- }
-
mem = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, SATA_FSL_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ, &mem_dma,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mem) {
- ata_pad_free(ap, dev);
kfree(pp);
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -694,7 +682,6 @@ static void sata_fsl_port_stop(struct ata_port *ap)
dma_free_coherent(dev, SATA_FSL_PORT_PRIV_DMA_SZ,
pp->cmdslot, pp->cmdslot_paddr);
- ata_pad_free(ap, dev);
kfree(pp);
}