linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] document dma_flags_set/get

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Message-Id: <20071016203300.3f5bf599.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:33:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	akepner@....com
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] document dma_flags_set/get_*()

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:44:17 -0700 akepner@....com wrote:

> @@ -547,3 +547,41 @@ size is the size (and should be a page-sized multiple).
>  The return value will be either a pointer to the processor virtual
>  address of the memory, or an error (via PTR_ERR()) if any part of the
>  region is occupied.
> +
> +int 
> +dma_flags_set_attr(u32 attr, enum dma_data_direction dir)
> +
> +Amend dir with a platform-specific "dma attribute".
> +
> +The only attribute currently defined is DMA_BARRIER_ATTR, which causes 
> +in-flight DMA to be flushed when the associated memory region is written 
> +to (see example below).  Setting DMA_BARRIER_ATTR provides a mechanism 
> +to enforce ordering of DMA on platforms that permit DMA to be reordered 
> +between device and host memory (within a NUMA interconnect).  On other 
> +platforms this is a nop.
> +
> +DMA_BARRIER_ATTR would be set when the memory region is mapped for DMA, 
> +e.g.:
> +
> +	int count;
> +	int flags = dma_flags_set_attr(DMA_BARRIER_ATTR, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> +	....
> +	count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, flags);
> +

Isn't this rather a kludge?

What would be the cost of doing this cleanly and either redefining
dma_data_direction to be a field-of-bits or just leave dma_data_direction
alone (it is quite unrelated to this work, isn't it?) and adding new
fields/arguments to manage this new functionality?
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