From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:57:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120116015710.GD4512@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324643253-3024-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:27:20PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Introduce new generic alloc and free methods with attributes argument.
>
> 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 <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Looks sensible to me.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.ud.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-23 12:27 [PATCH 00/14] DMA-mapping framework redesign preparation Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-16 1:57 ` David Gibson [this message]
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 02/14] X86: adapt for dma_map_ops changes Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 03/14] MIPS: " Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-13 10:35 ` [PATCH 03/14 v2] " Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-13 10:41 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-02-13 12:41 ` [PATCH 03/14 v3] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 04/14] PowerPC: " Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-16 8:09 ` David Gibson
2012-02-13 10:36 ` [PATCH 04/14 v2] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 05/14] IA64: " Marek Szyprowski
2012-03-27 21:20 ` Tony Luck
2012-03-27 21:53 ` Luck, Tony
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 06/14] SPARC: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 07/14] Alpha: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 08/14] SH: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 09/14] Microblaze: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 10/14] Unicore32: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 11/14] common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 12/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 13/14] common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 14/14] common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-23 16:35 ` [PATCH 00/14] DMA-mapping framework redesign preparation Matthew Wilcox
2011-12-24 7:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-12-27 8:25 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-27 17:53 ` James Bottomley
2011-12-28 12:52 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-10 8:42 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-13 10:40 ` [PATCH] Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-24 15:48 ` [PATCH 00/14] DMA-mapping framework redesign preparation Arnd Bergmann
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