[Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC 0/2] ARM: DMA-mapping & IOMMU integration

KyongHo Cho pullip.cho at samsung.com
Mon Jun 13 11:58:22 EDT 2011


> I'm totally not following this argument. This has nothing to do with IOMMU
> or not. If you have an IOMMU, the dma code will know where the pages are
> anyway, so it can always map them into user space. The dma code might
> have an easier way to do it other than follwoing the page tables.
>
Ah. Sorry for that. I mixed dma_alloc_* up with dma_map_*.
I identified the reason why mmap_* in dma_map_ops is required.
You mean that nothing but DMA API knows what pages will be mapped to user space.
Thanks anyway.

KyongHo.



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