linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.0 659/862] ARM/dma-mappіng: dont override ->dma

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:46:22 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.0 659/862] ARM/dma-mappіng: dont override ->dma_coherent when set from a bus notifier

On 10/19/22 15:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 49bc8bebae79c8516cb12f91818f3a7907e3ebce ]
> 
> Commit ae626eb97376 ("ARM/dma-mapping: use dma-direct unconditionally")
> caused a regression on the mvebu platform, wherein devices that are
> dma-coherent are marked as dma-noncoherent, because although
> mvebu_hwcc_notifier() after that commit still marks then as coherent,
> the arm_coherent_dma_ops() function, which is called later, overwrites
> this setting, since it is being called from drivers/of/device.c with
> coherency parameter determined by of_dma_is_coherent(), and the
> device-trees do not declare the 'dma-coherent' property.
> 
> Fix this by defaulting never clearing the dma_coherent flag in
> arm_coherent_dma_ops().
> 

The patch subject looks mangled, right?

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