[RFC 2/3] USB: core: Add non-coherent buffer allocation helpers
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: 2018-08-31 05:50:52
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linux-media, linux-usb, lkml
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: 2018-08-31 05:50:52
Also in:
linux-media, linux-usb, lkml
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:11:35PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 10:58 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:quoted
Please don't introduce new DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT users, it is a rather horrible interface, and I plan to kill it off rather sooner than later. I plan to post some patches for a better interface that can reuse the normal dma_sync_single_* interfaces for ownership transfers. I can happily include usb in that initial patch set based on your work here if that helps.Please do. Until we have proper allocators that go thru the DMA API, drivers will have to kmalloc the USB transfer buffers, and have streaming mappings. Which in turns mean not using IOMMU or CMA.
dma_map_page will of course use the iommu.