From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:29:07 +0400 Message-ID: <4F72F603.2000803@mvista.com> References: <1332855768-32583-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Stephen Rothwell , FUJITA Tomonori , microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Jonathan Corbet , Kyungmin Park , Andrzej Pietrasiewicz , Kevin Cernekee , Dezhong Diao , Richard Kuo Hello. On 27-03-2012 17:42, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > Introduce new generic alloc and free methods with attributes argument. The method names don't match the ones in the subject. > Existing alloc_coherent and free_coherent can be implemented on top of the > new calls with NULL attributes argument. Later also dma_alloc_non_coherent > can be implemented using DMA_ATTR_NONCOHERENT attribute as well as > dma_alloc_writecombine with separate DMA_ATTR_WRITECOMBINE attribute. > This way the drivers will get more generic, platform independent way of > allocating dma buffers with specific parameters. > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski > Acked-by: Kyungmin Park > Reviewed-by: David Gibson > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann WBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org