On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 05:53 -0700, Steven Walter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Russell King - ARM > Linux<li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > [...] > > As far as userspace DMA coherency, the only way you could do it with > > current kernel APIs is by using get_user_pages(), creating a scatterlist > > from those, and then passing it to dma_map_sg(). While the device has > > ownership of the SG, userspace must _not_ touch the buffer until after > > DMA has completed. > [...] > > Would that work on a processor with VIVT caches? It seems not. In > particular, dma_map_page uses page_address to get a virtual address to > pass to map_single(). map_single() in turn uses this address to > perform cache maintenance. Since page_address() returns the kernel > virtual address, I don't see how any cache-lines for the userspace > virtual address would get invalidated (for the DMA_FROM_DEVICE case). > > If that's true, then what is the correct way to allow DMA to/from a > userspace buffer with a VIVT cache? If not true, what am I missing?
page_address() is basically returning page->virtual, which records the virtual/physical mapping for both user/kernel space; and what only matters there is highmem or not. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
