From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:27:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] PCI: get DMA configuration from parent device In-Reply-To: <1934001.D0JfDRp1gF@wuerfel> References: <1420656594-8908-1-git-send-email-m-karicheri2@ti.com> <54ADBB89.8070503@ti.com> <1934001.D0JfDRp1gF@wuerfel> Message-ID: <2785994.gTZ9chGdKf@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thursday 08 January 2015 09:56:39 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > There is another interesting case, which is a USB host controller or > something similar behind a PCI bus. These are quite common and also > need to be handled in some form. Let's do just PCI first for now, but > be aware that this will come next. Should we assume that the ID that > is required for a device is either known from the device node, or > that it comes from a PCI device? That means for the USB case, we will > likely need to have some custom logic. There seems to be an implicit > assumption all over the kernel that all devices have the same IOMMU > instance, but we can't really rely on that here. > Update: I've checked the USB implementation and we are lucky because these interactions are all done by the USB host controller, and a USB device is not itself DMA capable. We don't have to do anything for USB. Arnd