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Catalin Marinas; Liviu Dudau; Laura Abbott; linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA
APIs for cache flushing
Ion is currently using the DMA APIs in non-compliant ways for cache
maintaince. The issue is Ion needs to do cache
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:59:22AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I _really_ hate seeing architecture internal functions being abused in
> drivers - architecture internal functions are there to implement the
> official kernel APIs and are not for drivers to poke about with.
Exactly - if
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:58:35AM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:48:02PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >
> > Ion is currently using the DMA APIs in non-compliant ways for cache
> > maintaince. The issue is Ion needs to do cache operations outside of
> > the regular DMA
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:48:02PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
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> Ion is currently using the DMA APIs in non-compliant ways for cache
> maintaince. The issue is Ion needs to do cache operations outside of
> the regular DMA model. The Ion model matches more closely with the
> DRM model which calls
Ion is currently using the DMA APIs in non-compliant ways for cache
maintaince. The issue is Ion needs to do cache operations outside of
the regular DMA model. The Ion model matches more closely with the
DRM model which calls cache APIs directly. Add an appropriate
abstraction layer for Ion to
