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From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	Pawel Osciak <pawel@osciak.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Giancarlo Asnaghi <giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] videobuf2-dma-contig: user can specify GFP flags
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:58:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5204825.yR0kSsoYV4@harkonnen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EBF7A9.6070802@samsung.com>

> Ok, then I would simply pass the flags from the driver without any
> alternation
> in the allocator itself, so drivers can pass 'GFP_KERNEL' or
> 'GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA' depending on their preference. Please also update
> all
> the existing clients of vb2_dma_dc allocator.

I taked a look at drivers that use dma-contig. They use the structure 
vb2_alloc_ctx which is just a name, there is not a real vb2_alloc_ctx 
structure implementation. "Now" driver must gain access to vb2_dc_conf to set 
the correct flags.

I have the following ideas:

  1.  replace all the names and expose vb2_dc_conf to all drivers (like dma-
sg, it export vb2_dma_sg_desc to all its users)

  2.  create an helper which configure flags. This maintain the vb2_dc_conf 
private
      vb2_set_mem_flags(struct vb2_alloc_ctx *alloc_ctx, gfp_t flags)

  3.  rename vb2_dc_conf to vb2_alloc_ctx because it is an implementation 
vb2_alloc_ctx and (at the moment) it is used only by dma-contig

-- 
Federico Vaga

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-08 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-06 17:29 [PATCH v4 1/3] videobuf2-dma-contig: user can specify GFP flags Federico Vaga
2013-01-06 17:29 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] sta2x11_vip: convert to videobuf2 and control framework Federico Vaga
2013-01-07  9:46   ` Hans Verkuil
2013-01-06 17:29 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] adv7180: remove {query/g_/s_}ctrl Federico Vaga
2013-01-08  6:53 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] videobuf2-dma-contig: user can specify GFP flags Marek Szyprowski
2013-01-08 10:15   ` Federico Vaga
2013-01-08 10:40     ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-01-08 14:58       ` Federico Vaga [this message]

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