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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com>,
	roy.pledge@nxp•com, oss@buserror•net,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org, devicetree@vger•kernel.org
Cc: madalin.bucur@nxp•com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] soc/fsl/qbman: Use shared-dma-pool for QMan private memory allocations
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:27:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ste5dmw.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1cd8d44-8c74-ab50-5dc9-1f978cae5bdf@arm.com>

Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com> writes:

> Hi Roy,
>
> On 29/03/17 22:13, Roy Pledge wrote:
>> Use the shared-memory-pool mechanism for frame queue descriptor and
>> packed frame descriptor record area allocations.
>
> Thanks for persevering with this - in my opinion it's now looking like
> it was worth the effort :)
>
> AFAICS the ioremap_wc() that this leads to does appear to give back
> something non-cacheable on PPC (assuming "pgprot_noncached_wc" isn't
> horrendously misnamed), and "no-map" should rule out any cacheable
> linear map alias existing, so it would seem that this approach should
> avert Scott's concerns about attribute mismatches.

How does 'no-map' translate into something being excluded from the
linear mapping?

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-31  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-29 21:13 [RFC PATCH 0/5] soc/fsl/qbman: Rework private memory allocations Roy Pledge
2017-03-29 21:13 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] soc/fsl/qbman: Use shared-dma-pool for BMan " Roy Pledge
2017-03-29 21:13 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] soc/fsl/qbman: Use shared-dma-pool for QMan " Roy Pledge
2017-03-30 14:09   ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-31  3:27     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-03-31 17:55       ` Robin Murphy
2017-04-01  7:25         ` Scott Wood
2017-04-03 14:52           ` Robin Murphy
2017-04-04  0:24             ` Scott Wood
2017-03-29 21:13 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] dts: arch/powerpc: Update Freescale DTS for QBMan " Roy Pledge
2017-03-29 21:13 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] dt-bindings: soc/fsl: Update reserved memory binding for QBMan Roy Pledge
2017-04-03 15:42   ` Rob Herring
2017-04-03 19:49     ` Roy Pledge
2017-04-04  0:32       ` Scott Wood
2017-03-29 21:13 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Add HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT options to Kconfig Roy Pledge

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