From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx193.postini.com [74.125.245.193]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62D5B6B00E7 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bkwq16 with SMTP id q16so1060411bkw.14 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F72F603.2000803@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:29:07 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods References: <1332855768-32583-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <1332855768-32583-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Stephen Rothwell , FUJITA Tomonori , microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Jonathan Corbet , Kyungmin Park , Andrzej Pietrasiewicz , Kevin Cernekee , Dezhong Diao , Richard Kuo , "David S. Miller" , Michal Simek , Guan Xuetao , Paul Mundt , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org