linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL

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Message-ID: <20190629150915.GA817@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:09:15 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>,
        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING in
 common code

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:44:30PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING is generally implemented by allocating
> normal cacheable pages or CMA memory, and then returning the page
> pointer as the opaque handle.  Lift that code from the xtensa and
> generic dma remapping implementations into the generic dma-direct
> code so that we don't even call arch_dma_alloc for these allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

This patch results in build failures for mips:nlm_xlp_defconfig and
mips:cavium_octeon_defconfig.

kernel/dma/direct.c:144: undefined reference to `arch_dma_prep_coherent'

Reverting the patch fixes the problem.

Guenter