Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:34:23 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: DMA API issues |
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:40:45PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:26:39 -0700 (PDT), > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > The argument at some point was that some architectures may not even _have_ > > > a "struct page" for DMA memory, since it's not "normal" memory (ie "slow > > > memory" on m68k). However, I thought we all agreed that such a "struct > > > page" could be furnished if that architecture wants so support mmap'ing. > > > > .. which is not to say that we shouldn't have a "pci_mmap_pages()" thing > > _too_. Pretty clearly the easiest interface often is to just map the pages > > at mmap() time, and then we should just have a helper function to do that. > > > > I thought we did one already, but hey, maybe not. > > I don't think we have such. > > Russell has once proposed a similar one (but not pci-specific), and I > believe it makes sense for many drivers. We can hide the > architecture-specific cache handling inside the helper function, too.
Ok. So does anyone have any objections if I push the ARM DMA mmap interface upstream, which consists of:
/** * dma_mmap_coherent - map a coherent DMA allocation into user space * @dev: valid struct device pointer, or NULL for ISA and EISA-like devices * @vma: vm_area_struct describing requested user mapping * @cpu_addr: kernel CPU-view address returned from dma_alloc_coherent * @handle: device-view address returned from dma_alloc_coherent * @size: size of memory originally requested in dma_alloc_coherent * * Map a coherent DMA buffer previously allocated by dma_alloc_coherent * into user space. The coherent DMA buffer must not be freed by the * driver until the user space mapping has been released. */ int dma_mmap_coherent(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t handle, size_t size);
and a similar one for the ARM-specific "write combining" case (for framebuffers utilising the DMA API)?
This was discussed on linux-arch, and the discussion died while trying to settle on a suitable interface through apparant lack of interest.
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