linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:19:28 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:02:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think the misunderstanding is that you are saying we need the flag
> in dma_map_ops because you prefer to keep the cache management outside
> of the individual dma_map_ops implementations.
> 
> What I guess Jörg is thinking of is to have the generic IOMMU version
> of dma_map_ops call into the architecture specific code to manage the
> caches on architectures that need it. That implementation would of
> course not require the flag in dma_map_ops because the architecture
> specific callback would use other ways (hardcoded for an architecture,
> or looking at the individual device) to determine if this is ever needed.
> 
> That is also what I had in mind earlier, but you argued against it
> on the base that putting the logic into the common code would lead
> to a higher risk of people accidentally breaking it when they only
> care about coherent architectures.

You still need this same cache handling code even when you don't have
an iommu.  I don't see the point in having a dma_ops level of indirection
followed by a separate iommu_ops level of indirection - it seems to me to
be a waste of code and CPU time, and I don't see why its even necessary
when there's a much simpler way to deal with it (as I illustrated).
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