linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: remove support for DMA_ATTR_WRITE

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Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:06:24 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:     Shawn Anastasio <shawn@...stas.io>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: remove support for DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE

Hello!

On 05.08.2019 11:01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Mips uses the KSEG1 kernel memory segment do map dma coherent

     MIPS. s/do/to/?

> allocations for n

on-coherent devices as uncachable, and does not have

    Uncacheable?

> any kind of special support for DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE in the allocation
> path.  Thus supporting DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE in dma_mmap_attrs will
> lead to multiple mappings with different caching attributes.
> 
> Fixes: 8c172467be36 ("MIPS: Add implementation of dma_map_ops.mmap()")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
[...]

MBR, Sergei