From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:06:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dma: change coherent memory to normal noncached In-Reply-To: <1258748951-10548-2-git-send-email-adharmap@codeaurora.org> References: <1258748951-10548-1-git-send-email-adharmap@codeaurora.org> <1258748951-10548-2-git-send-email-adharmap@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <20091120210619.GI16920@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:29:11PM -0800, Abhijeet Dharmapurikar wrote: > We need dma_alloc_coherent() to use its own page protection modifier, > which causes it to behave the same as dma_alloc_writecombine() on ARMv7, > and with the existing behaviour (for the time being) on ARMv6 and below. > We should leave pgprot_noncached() well alone until we know that its > other places need to be changed. As I say, I have a large set of changes which impacts this patch, and the original patch is already in my DMA patch queue.