On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

That is an interesting question: We actually have the
"DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING" for this case, and ARM implements
it in the coherent interface, so that might be a good fit.

Yes. my WIP HMB patch uses DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING, although I'm
workin on x86 at the moment where it's a no-op.

Implementing it in the streaming API makes no sense since we
already have a kernel mapping here, but using a normal allocation
(possibly with DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT or DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC,
need to check) might help on other architectures that have
limited amounts of coherent memory and no CMA.

Though about that - but in the end DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING implies
those, so instead of using lots of flags in driver I'd rather fix
up more dma_ops implementations to take advantage of
DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING.