Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote @ Fri, 24 Aug 2012 
13:13:23 +0200:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:29:02AM +0300, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > struct page **pages is necessary to align with non atomic path in
> > __iommu_get_pages(). atomic_pool() has the intialized **pages instead
> > of just *page.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hd...@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |   17 +++++++++++++----
> >  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > index 601da7a..b14ee64 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> > @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ struct dma_pool {
> >     unsigned long *bitmap;
> >     unsigned long nr_pages;
> >     void *vaddr;
> > -   struct page *page;
> > +   struct page **pages;
> >  };
> >  
> >  static struct dma_pool atomic_pool = {
> > @@ -335,12 +335,16 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
> >     unsigned long nr_pages = pool->size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >     unsigned long *bitmap;
> >     struct page *page;
> > +   struct page **pages;
> >     void *ptr;
> >     int bitmap_size = BITS_TO_LONGS(nr_pages) * sizeof(long);
> > +   size_t size = nr_pages * sizeof(struct page *);
> >  
> > -   bitmap = kzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   size += bitmap_size;
> > +   bitmap = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> >     if (!bitmap)
> >             goto no_bitmap;
> > +   pages = (void *)bitmap + bitmap_size;
> 
> So you stuck a bitmap field in front of the array then?
> Why not just define a structure where this is clearly defined
> instead of doing the casting.

I just wanted to allocate only once for the members "pool->bitmap" and
"pool->pages" at once. Since the size of a whole bitmap isn't known in
advance, I couldn't find any fixed type for this bitmap, which pointer
can be shifted without casting. IOW, they are variable length.
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