From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sshtylyov@mvista.com (Sergei Shtylyov) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:29:07 +0400 Subject: [PATCHv2 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods In-Reply-To: <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> References: <1332855768-32583-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Message-ID: <4F72F603.2000803@mvista.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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