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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst•de>
To: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium•org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/28] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 06:52:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200820045201.GB4570@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAFQd5DrEq7UVi_aH=-DO4xYC3SbjJ3m1aQSbt=8THL-W+orMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:22:29PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > > FWIW, I asked back in time what the plan is for non-coherent
> > > allocations and it seemed like DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT and
> > > dma_sync_*() was supposed to be the right thing to go with. [2] The
> > > same thread also explains why dma_alloc_pages() isn't suitable for the
> > > users of dma_alloc_attrs() and DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT.
> >
> > AFAICS even back then Christoph was implying getting rid of
> > NON_CONSISTENT and *replacing* it with something streaming-API-based -
> 
> That's not how I read his reply from the thread I pointed to, but that
> might of course be my misunderstanding.

Yes.  Without changes like in this series just calling dma_sync_single_*
will break in various cases, e.g. because dma_alloc_attrs returns
memory remapped in the vmalloc space, and the dma_sync_single_*
implementation implementation can't cope with vmalloc addresses.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-20  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-08-19  6:55 ` a saner API for allocating DMA addressable pages Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 01/28] mm: turn alloc_pages into an inline function Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 02/28] drm/exynos: stop setting DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 03/28] drm/nouveau/gk20a: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 04/28] net/au1000-eth: stop using DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 05/28] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19 11:16     ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-19 11:51       ` Robin Murphy
2020-08-19 12:49         ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-19 13:57           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19 14:11             ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20  4:45               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 10:09                 ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20 16:51                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19 14:07           ` Robin Murphy
2020-08-19 14:22             ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20  4:52               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-20  5:02             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 10:24               ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20 16:52                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 17:41                   ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-19 13:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19 13:57         ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20  4:43           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20  5:20             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 10:05               ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20 16:54                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 17:33                   ` Tomasz Figa
2020-09-01 11:06                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 15:02                       ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 06/28] lib82596: move DMA allocation into the callers of i82596_probe Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 13:29     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 07/28] 53c700: improve non-coherent DMA handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 14:52     ` James Bottomley
2020-09-01 15:05       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-01 15:22         ` James Bottomley
2020-09-01 16:21           ` Helge Deller
2020-09-01 16:41             ` Helge Deller
2020-09-01 16:53               ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-02 15:00                 ` Helge Deller
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 08/28] MIPS: make dma_sync_*_for_cpu a little less overzealous Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 13:53     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 09/28] MIPS/jazzdma: remove the unused vdma_remap function Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 13:49     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 10/28] MIPS/jazzdma: decouple from dma-direct Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 13:49     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 11/28] dma-mapping: add (back) arch_dma_mark_clean for ia64 Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 12/28] dma-direct: remove dma_direct_{alloc,free}_pages Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 13/28] dma-direct: lift gfp_t manipulation out of__dma_direct_alloc_pages Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 14/28] dma-direct: use phys_to_dma_direct in dma_direct_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 15/28] dma-direct: remove __dma_to_phys Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 16/28] dma-direct: rename and cleanup __phys_to_dma Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 17/28] dma-mapping: move dma_common_{mmap, get_sgtable} out of mapping.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 18/28] dma-mapping: move the dma_declare_coherent_memory documentation Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 19/28] dma-mapping: replace DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT with dma_{alloc, free}_pages Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19 15:03     ` Tomasz Figa
2020-08-20  5:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 20/28] sgiwd93: convert from dma_cache_sync to dma_sync_single_for_device Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 21/28] hal2: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 22/28] sgiseeq: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 15:22     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-09-01 17:12       ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-09-01 17:16         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 17:38           ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-09-02 21:38             ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-09-03  8:42               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03  8:43             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03  8:46               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 23/28] lib82596: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 24/28] 53c700: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 25/28] dma-mapping: remove dma_cache_sync Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 26/28] dmapool: add dma_alloc_pages support Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 27/28] nvme-pci: fix PRP pool size Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-19  6:55   ` [PATCH 28/28] nvme-pci: use dma_alloc_pages backed dmapools Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-25 11:30   ` a saner API for allocating DMA addressable pages Marek Szyprowski
2020-08-25 13:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-29  9:46   ` Helge Deller

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