From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:37:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset
 when used with device tree
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:50:34PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 20/06/17 14:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Wouldn't the smal patch below solve the same issue in a simple way?
> 
> That assumes that all devices accessing a shared pool will have the same
>  dma_pfn_offset as the first one, which cannot strictly be relied upon
> (even if it is highly likely in practice).

Which seems like another argument why the global pool should be
a different implementation / interface than the per-device dma
mapping helpers..