Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 01:06:27 -0400

On 2016-04-18 00:00, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sinan Kaya <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:23:32 -0400
> 
>> Current code is assuming that the address returned by 
>> dma_alloc_coherent
>> is a logical address. This is not true on ARM/ARM64 systems. This 
>> patch
>> replaces dma_alloc_coherent with dma_map_page API. The address 
>> returned
>> can later by virtually mapped from the CPU side with vmap API.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <[email-masked]>
> 
> You can't do this.
> 
> The DMA map page API gives non-coherent mappings, and thus requires
> proper flushing.
> 
> So a straight conversion like this is never legitimate.

I would agree on proper dma api usage. However, the code is already 
assuming coherent architecture by mapping the cpu pages as page_kernel.

Dma_map_page returns cached buffers and you don't need cache flushes on 
coherent architecture to make the data visible.