linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] [RFC] arm/arm64: introduce is_dma

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Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:40:29 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
CC:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"david.vrabel@...rix.com" <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] [RFC] arm/arm64: introduce is_dma_coherent

On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 14:29 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>  
> Your suggestions and looking more at the code gave me another idea, that
> I think is clean and at the same time suitable for 3.18.
> What do you think of the following? It is simple, self-contained and
> doesn't need a new flag in struct device.

of_dma_is_coherent looks to be quite expensive though (walks up the
Device Tree doing strcmps on each property of each node until it finds
the one it is looking for.

Ian.

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