linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 10/19] xen: introduce xen_alloc/free_coherent

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Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:40:16 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Ian.Campbell@...rix.com" <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 10/19] xen: introduce xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages

On 30 Sep 2013, at 16:31, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:09:58PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent needs to allocate a coherent buffer for cpu
>> and devices. On native x86 and ARMv8 is sufficient to call
>> __get_free_pages in order to get a coherent buffer, while on ARM we need
>> to call the native dma_ops->alloc implementation.
>> 
>> When arm64 stops using the swiotlb by default and starts having multiple
>> dma_ops implementations, we'll use __get_dma_ops there too.
> 
> I presume this is a future TODO, not some further patch (in which
> case you should say in here the title of it). If it is a TODO could
> you stick that in the sentence here somewhere to make it crytal clear that
> it is not implemented.

Thanks for pointing this out.  The arm64 patch shouldn't be different
from arm here.  I thought a subsequent patch already added
__get_dma_ops() for arm64.

Catalin--
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