This is in dma-mapping for-next now.
Any comments?
Thomas: this should be identical to the git tree I gave you for mips
testing, and you add your tested-by (and reviewd-by tags where
applicable)?
Helge: for parisc this should effectively be the same as the first
version, but I've dropped the tested-by tags due to the reshuffle,
and
Hi all,
this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs
with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all
platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this
ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for
non-coherent D
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:26:17PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:44:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I'm still a little unsure about the API naming, as alloc_pages sort of
> > implies a struct page return value, but we return a kernel virtual
> > address.
>
> Er
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:44:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'm still a little unsure about the API naming, as alloc_pages sort of
> implies a struct page return value, but we return a kernel virtual
> address.
Erm ... dma_alloc_pages() returns a struct page, so is this sentence
stale?
>
Hi all,
this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs
with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all
platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this
ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for
non-coherent D
Hi Christoph,
On 19.08.20 08:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs
> with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all
> platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this
> ensures that other dri
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 01:30:41PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> I really wonder what is the difference between this new API and
> alloc_pages(GFP_DMA, n). Is this API really needed? I thought that this
> is legacy thing to be removed one day...
The difference is that the pages returned are g
Hi Christoph,
On 19.08.2020 08:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs
> with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all
> platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this
> ensures that other d
Hi all,
this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs
with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all
platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this
ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for
non-coherent D
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