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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:22:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/9] dma-mapping: add dma_{map,unmap}_resource
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Niklas S?derlund wrote:
> Without an IOMMU this is easy since the phys_addr_t and dma_addr_t are 
> the same and no special care is needed. However if you have a IOMMU you 
> need to map the DMA slave phys_addr_t to a dma_addr_t using something 
> like this. Is it not very similar to dma_map_single() where one maps 
> processor virtual memory (instead if MMIO) so that it can be used with 
> DMA slaves?

It's similar, but I don't think this actually works as a general case
as there are quite a few places that expect to be able to have a
struct page for a physical address.  We'd at least need a very careful
audit for that case.