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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	artemi.ivanov@cogentembedded.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
	fkan@apm.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: do not set dma masks that device connection can't handle
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:51:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110145106.GC27156@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07253eaa-5729-0f15-42b6-e8403f1f0412@cogentembedded.com>

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:47:25PM +0300, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> With this direction, semantics of dma mask becomes even more
> questionable. I'd say dma_mask is candidate for removal (or to move to
> swiotlb's or iommu's local area)

We need the dma mask so that the device can advertise what addresses
the device supports.  Many old devices only support 32-bit DMA addressing,
and some less common ones just 24-bit or other weird ones.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-09  7:30 [PATCH v2] arm64: do not set dma masks that device connection can't handle Nikita Yushchenko
2017-01-10 11:51 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-10 12:47   ` Nikita Yushchenko
2017-01-10 13:12     ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-10 13:25     ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-10 13:42       ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-10 14:16         ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-10 15:06           ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-11 12:37           ` Nikita Yushchenko
2017-01-11 16:21             ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-11 18:28             ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-10 14:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 14:01       ` Nikita Yushchenko
2017-01-10 14:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 14:51     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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