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From: catalin.marinas@arm•com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: DMA mapping API(IOMMU) for ARM64?
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:38:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618103804.GI9930@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5159282.rrJMaZuYMv@wuerfel>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:32:44AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:19:14 Will Deacon wrote:
> > I've spoken briefly with Catalin about this and it seems like there might be
> > *some* scope for sharing common dma-mapping code between architectures.
> > There doesn't really need to be any architecture-specific details in
> > allocating iova space and the interface to the iommu drivers is
> > well-defined. The arch-specific stuff is bogged down in the non-coherent
> > buffer management, but that doesn't necessarily equate to lots of code.
> > 
> > So, the best bet would be to figure out how to split up what we have under
> > arch/arm/ so that it can be re-used by arm64 and potentially other
> > architectures (powerpc has some simple stuff for coherent mappings and some
> > less-simple stuff for non-coherent buffers).
> 
> I'm sure that other architectures are interested in sharing the code.
> Best move it into the global mm/ directory, at least the version for
> coherent mappings.

Or we could extend the lib/iommu-helper.c or add another file in there
(we already have lib/swiotlb.c).

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18  2:39 DMA mapping API(IOMMU) for ARM64? Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-18 10:19 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-18 10:32   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-18 10:38     ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-06-18 11:01     ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-18 12:50       ` Catalin Marinas
2013-06-18 14:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-18 15:20           ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-18 22:08         ` Don Dutile
2013-06-19 11:11           ` Catalin Marinas
2013-06-19  9:29         ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-06-18 12:51       ` Arnd Bergmann

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