RE: [PATCH] tpm: ibmvtpm: Make use of dma_alloc_coherent()

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
> Sent: 12 October 2021 18:41
> 
> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 12:43 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 06:29:58PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 00:01 +0800, Cai Huoqing wrote:
> > > > Replacing kmalloc/kfree/get_zeroed_page/free_page/dma_map_single/
> > >   ~~~~~~~~~
> > >   Replace
> > >
> > > > dma_unmap_single() with dma_alloc_coherent/dma_free_coherent()
> > > > helps to reduce code size, and simplify the code, and coherent
> > > > DMA will not clear the cache every time.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com>
> > >
> > > If this does not do functionally anything useful, there's no
> > > reason to apply this.
> >
> > At least in this case it looks like the ibmvtpm is not using the DMA
> > API properly. There is no sync after each data transfer. Replacing
> > this wrong usage with the coherent API is reasonable.
> 
> Thank you. As long as this is documented to the commit message,
> I'm cool with the change itself.
> 
> E.g. something like this would be perfectly fine replacement for the
> current commit message:
> 
> "The current usage pattern for the DMA API is inappropriate, as
> data transfers are not synced. Replace the existing DMA code
> with the coherent DMA API."

Why not also say that the DMA access snoop the cache?
(I think that was mentioned earlier in the thread.)

	David

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