linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] DMAENGINE: driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:35:50 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@...el.com>, yuanyabin1978@...a.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Peter Pearse <peter.pearse@....com>,
	"Krogerus, Heikki" <heikki.krogerus@...el.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	"mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com" <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...pv.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] DMAENGINE: driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2014 09:17:04 Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> Again as Russell stated that doesn't necessarily influence any memory
>> coherency or the physical address pointer written into the DMAC
>> hardware at all, does it? The transfers can still happen between the
>> peripheral and DMAC, and the IOMMU can still be sitting in the middle
>> of things, in front of the DMAC not the device, needing to be flushed etc.
>>
>> Sorry if I don't get it... maybe this is one of these funny Intel things
>> I cannot wrap my head around properly.
>
> The device pointer we pass into dma_map_* can be used for anything that
> the underlying dma_map_ops implementation requires. This includes
> determining:
>
> * coherency
> * offsets between bus and cpu physical address
> * presence of IOMMU
> * limits in available bus address space (dma_mask)
> * iommu context ID (normally the location on the PCI bus)
>
> The difference is that on ARM we usually care about the first
> four, which may be different for each device. The case that Dave is
> interested in is when these four are known implicitly but the fifth
> one is not know but depends on the slave device.

Ahhh I get it. But the topological question remains I guess...

ARM buses have something like bus master IDs I think (usually
only visible to the hardware) I guess it fills a similar purpose thoug
we never really see it from the OS side.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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