On Friday 14 March 2014 12:57 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2014, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> I remember NAKing this approach in past and my stand remains same.
>> The cache APIs which you are trying to use here are not suppose
>> to be used outside.
>>
>> I think the right way to fix this is to make use of streaming APIs.
>> If needed, IOMMU can have its own dma_ops for special case
>> handling if any.
>>
>> Russell, Arnd might have more ideas.
> 
> I have a bad feeling about using the dma-mapping API within the
> IOMMU code, because that driver is also used to implement the
> dma-mapping API for devices attached to the IOMMU. It's possible
> that it just works.
> 
Thats a good point.

> Is the IOMMU actually designed to have page tables in noncoherent
> memory? I would have expected that the iopt accesses must all be
> done on dma_alloc_coherent() provided memory to guarantee proper
> accesses.
> 
At least the OMAP one seems to use non-coherent memory which will
need CMO.

Regards,
Santosh

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