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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
To: "joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org"
	<joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org>,
	"iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org"
	<iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>,
	Varun Sethi <V.Sethi-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org>,
	Peter Newton <peter.newton-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org>,
	Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: extend IOMMU attributes
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:00:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160225150053.GA15330@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160225143855.GD16675-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:38:55PM +0100, joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 04:16:26PM +0000, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> >  #define IOMMU_READ            (1 << 0)
> >  #define IOMMU_WRITE           (1 << 1)
> > -#define IOMMU_CACHE           (1 << 2) /* DMA cache coherency */
> > +#define IOMMU_CACHE_COHERENT  (1 << 2) /* cacheable and coherent */
> >  #define IOMMU_NOEXEC          (1 << 3)
> >  #define IOMMU_MMIO            (1 << 4) /* e.g. things like MSI doorbells */
> > +#define IOMMU_CACHEABLE       (1 << 5) /* cacheable, not coherent */
> > +#define IOMMU_CACHE_ALLOCATE  (1 << 6) /* hint to allocate in the cache */
> 
> Hmm, this might be a valid use-case to introduce the
> map_attr()/unmap_attr() calls to the IOMMU-API. I have been resistant to
> these functions until now because the proposed use-cases were not
> convincing, but for hardware-specific map-attributes like this one it
> could make sense.

So this particular use-case is completely insane, but something like
read/write allocation hints could make sense for arm-smmu systems.

Will

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-25 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 16:16 RFC: extend IOMMU attributes Stuart Yoder
     [not found] ` <HE1PR04MB1641F22E38710B68F4ED891F8DAF0-6LN7OEpIatU5tNmRkpaxD89NdZoXdze2vxpqHgZTriW3zl9H0oFU5g@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-18 16:21   ` Will Deacon
     [not found]     ` <20160218162145.GB16883-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-18 19:33       ` Stuart Yoder
2016-02-25 14:38   ` joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A
     [not found]     ` <20160225143855.GD16675-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-25 15:00       ` Will Deacon [this message]

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