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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
To: John Whitney <jwhitney-linuxppc@sands-edge.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Problems with dma_alloc_coherent()
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:51:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406C488A.2090109@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9EB527A2-83F5-11D8-9FF0-000A95A07384@sands-edge.com


John Whitney wrote:

> To that end, I am submitting the attached patch which modifies
> dma_alloc_coherent() and dma_free_coherent() to do just this for
> cache-coherent platforms.

I think you should change/implement consistent_alloc()/free() to do
the right thing rather that use the #ifdef here.  Also, ensure the
ancillary function (like the dma sync/sg functions) work properly as
well.  They are probably no-ops (well, not the sg functions) but
look for those anyway.

There are also reasons to allocate un-cached DMA regions on
cache coherent platforms (but I will not debate the value in doing so),
so keep that under consideration.

Thanks.


	-- Dan


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 15:59 Problems with dma_alloc_coherent() John Whitney
2004-04-01 16:30 ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 16:51 ` Dan Malek [this message]
2004-04-01 17:01 ` Tom Rini
2004-04-01 17:05 ` Matt Porter
2004-04-01 17:51   ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:16     ` Matt Porter
2004-04-01 18:19     ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:33       ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:33       ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:40         ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:48           ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:55       ` Dan Malek
2004-04-01 18:59         ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 19:10           ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 19:17             ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 19:35               ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 20:52               ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-01 22:00                 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 22:39                   ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 16:50                   ` John Whitney
2004-04-02 18:50                     ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 19:27                       ` John Whitney
2004-04-02 20:20                         ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 21:01                           ` John Whitney
2004-04-03  7:54                             ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-03 12:43                               ` John Whitney
2004-04-05  9:05                                 ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-03 17:33                               ` Brad Boyer
2004-04-03 23:17                                 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-04-04  8:15                                 ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-02 22:54                     ` Paul Mackerras
2004-04-03  7:33                       ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-04 22:56                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-02  5:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-01 20:49           ` Matt Porter

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