Hello, Some devices, which have IOMMU, for some use cases might require to allocate a buffers for DMA which is contiguous in physical memory. Such use cases appears for example in DRM subsystem when one wants to improve performance or use secure buffer protection.
I would like to ask if adding a new attribute, as proposed in this RFC is a good idea? I feel that it might be an attribute just for a single driver, but I would like to know your opinion. Should we look for other solution? Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski Samsung Poland R&D Center Marek Szyprowski (2): common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS attribute ARM: dma-mapping: add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS attribute Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 9 +++++++++ arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
