Hi All,

Frankly speaking, I didn't follow up this discussion until this point where
I wanted to know whether we have iommu ops support in dma-mapping API for
64BIT ARM Arch.
If anyone can please provide some more info as what is the current status
on this and is it completely supported now ?



Thanks
Ritesh





On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:08:15PM +0100, Don Dutile wrote:
> > On 06/18/2013 08:50 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > >> Arnd Bergmann<[email protected]>  wrote @ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:32:44
> +0200:
> > >>> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:19:14 Will Deacon wrote:
> > >>>> I've spoken briefly with Catalin about this and it seems like there
> might be
> > >>>> *some* scope for sharing common dma-mapping code between
> architectures.
> > >>>> There doesn't really need to be any architecture-specific details in
> > >>>> allocating iova space and the interface to the iommu drivers is
> > >>>> well-defined. The arch-specific stuff is bogged down in the
> non-coherent
> > >>>> buffer management, but that doesn't necessarily equate to lots of
> code.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> So, the best bet would be to figure out how to split up what we
> have under
> > >>>> arch/arm/ so that it can be re-used by arm64 and potentially other
> > >>>> architectures (powerpc has some simple stuff for coherent mappings
> and some
> > >>>> less-simple stuff for non-coherent buffers).
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm sure that other architectures are interested in sharing the code.
> > >>> Best move it into the global mm/ directory, at least the version for
> > >>> coherent mappings.
> > >>
> > >> I'm guessing that this kind of unification usually takes some time
> > >> since we need to factor out the common code from the different
> > >> ${ARCH}/mm/dma-mapping.c. Also some of ${ARCH} has IOMMU support in
> > >> it. So if we want to develop our 64-bit ARM with working DMA mapping
> > >> API during this transition, the step to take would be:
> > >>
> > >> 1, Copy arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c(+swiotlb)
> > >> 2, Adapt arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c(+swiotlb) to 64bit compatible.
> > >> 3, Factor out the common code from them into mm/dma-mapping.c
> > >
> > > Or add the relevant code to something like lib/iommu-helper.c, convert
> > > arm64 to use that and we can work on converting arm and other
> > > architectures afterwards.
> > >
> > why not in current drivers/iommu directory ?
>
> That's not really specific to the iommu driver implementation, they have
> a clearly defined interface. For similarity with swiotlb and given that
> we already have iommu-helper.c, lib/ looks best to me. Anyway, let's
> first see how the code looks like, it can be moved later.
>
> --
> Catalin
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