Hi Wolfram,
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:44 AM Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As a comment in the other thread said you should not set it multiple times,
> > probably the best solution is to:
> > (a) check if dev->dma_parms is already set, and if not:
> > (b) allocate using plain kzalloc() (with a comment why!),
> > (c) not free the memory nor reset dev->dma_parms (with a comment
> > why!).
>
> Quite clumsy if done per driver, or?
Yes it is. As for other DMA parameters (e.g. DMA mask), it's a property of
the device and/or platform. So (in theory) it should be set up that way...
> If this is the intended behaviour, then there is something to improve
> with the dma_params API, or? If something which is meant to have a
> lifecycle same as the device but needs to get set during probe/remove
> lifecycle, this calls for at least a helper function which hides all
> these details?
Promote drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_iommu.c:configure_dma_max_seg_size()
to a generic helper?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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