From: hch@lst•de (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] drivers: dma-coherent: Introduce interface for default DMA pool
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170719072001.GA20840@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1500281885-3034-2-git-send-email-vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:58:04AM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Christoph noticed [1] that default DMA pool in current form overload
> the DMA coherent infrastructure. In reply, Robin suggested to split
> the per-device vs. global pool interfaces, so allocation/release from
> default DMA pool is driven by dma ops implementation.
>
> This patch implements Robin's idea and provide interface to
> allocate/release/mmap the default/global DMA pool.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/370
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/431
>
> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm•com>
This looks good to me. I'd just rename the existin *_from_coherent
routines to *_from_dev_coherent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-19 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-17 8:58 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce interface for default DMA pool Vladimir Murzin
2017-07-17 8:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] drivers: dma-coherent: " Vladimir Murzin
2017-07-19 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-07-17 8:58 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ARM: NOMMU: Wire-up default DMA interface Vladimir Murzin
2017-07-19 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-20 9:29 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce interface for default DMA pool Szemző András
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