On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:14 AM Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 07:33:15PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> > dma_map_sg() expects a DMA domain. However, the drm devices
> > have been traditionally using unmanaged iommu domain which
> > is non-dma type. Using dma mapping APIs with that domain is bad.
> >
> > Replace dma_map_sg() calls with dma_sync_sg_for_device{|cpu}()
> > to do the cache maintenance.
>
> As I told you before: hell no. If you spent the slightest amount of
> actually trying to understand what you are doing here you'd know this
> can't work. Just turn on dma debugging and this will blow up in your
> face.
you can tone it down.. we weren't the ones who created the dma/iommu
mess, we are just trying to find a way to work around it
> Either you use the DMA API properly, that is you use it to map and
> to sync, or you don't use it at all. Mix and match between iommu
> APIs and DMA APIs is simply not possible.
I'd *love* nothing more to not use the dma api.. but on arm there is
no other way to do cache maint.
BR,
-R
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