[PATCH v3 0/2] ARM: IOMMU: tegra: Add iommu_ops for GART/SMMU driver

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:29:30PM +0100, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> Ok, the above function order should be as below?
> 
>   page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>       cpu_addr = kmap(page);
>       memset(cpu_addr, 0xa5, PAGE_SIZE);
>   	dma_addr = dma_map_page(dev, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>   	    < expect GPU does something >
>   	dma_unmap_page(dev, dma_addr, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>       < CPU can access data here again>
>       kunmap(cpu_addr);
>   __free_page(page);

That should work, but it's not particularly nice to wrap kmap around
the DMA API.

Bear in mind that alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL) will always give you a lowmem
page.  So, you might as well do:

	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
	cpu_addr = page_address(page);
	memset()
	dma_addr = dma_map_single(dev, cpu_addr, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
		< GPU access >
	dma_unmap_single(dev, dma_ddr, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
	< CPU access >
	__free_page(page);

and this doesn't raise any issues with kmap vs DMA API.