Hi Christoph,
On 24.04.2019 17:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'd be happy to offload all of the mentioned tasks to you if you
> volunteer.
Alright, I think I mostly got it and can start with the two usb drivers
you mentioned. Just need a few clarifications, please see inline.
> I think the first step is to move the two USB controller that can only
> DMA to their own BAR off the existing DMA coherent infrastructure. The
> controllers are already identified using the HCD_LOCAL_MEM flag, so we
> just need to key off that in the hcd_buffer_* routines and call into a
So if HCD_LOCAL_MEM is set I should call into the gen_pool api instead
of existing dma_{alloc,free}_coherent().
> genalloc that has been fed using the bar, replacing the current
> dma_declare_coherent usage. Take a look at drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
> for another example of allocating bits of a BAR using genalloc.
Where should I place the reference to the gen_pool? How does local_pool
in 'struct hcd_usb' sound?
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Thanks & Best Regards, Laurentiu
