[RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:29:30 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:06 +0100, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:52:25 +0100
> > Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, we end up with different DMA ops per device via dev_archdata.
> > 
> > Several architectures already do. What's wrong with the approach for
> > arm?
> 
> Nothing wrong IMHO but it depends on how you group the DMA ops as it may
> not be feasible to have all the combinations dmabounce/iommu/coherency
> combinations. I think the main combinations would be:
> 
> 1. standard (no-iommu) + non-coherent
> 2. standard (no-iommu) + coherent
> 3. iommu + non-coherent
> 4. iommu + coherent
> 5. dmabounce + non-coherent
> 6. dmabounce + coherent
> 
> I think dmabounce and iommu can be exclusive (unless the iommu cannot
> access the whole RAM). If that's the case, we can have three type of DMA
> ops:
> 
> 1. standard
> 2. iommu
> 3. dmabounce
> 
> with an additional flag via dev_archdata for cache coherency level (a
> device may be able to snoop the L1 or L2 cache etc.)

Sounds nothing wrong to me too. I like to see arm people to switch
from dmabounce to swiotlb though.