[PATCHv2 3/4] mm: vmalloc: add VM_DMA flag to indicate areas used by dma-mapping framework

[Paul Mundt]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:08 AM Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Hmm, VM_DMA would become generic flag?
> > AFAIU, maybe VM_DMA would be used only on ARM arch.
> 
> Right now yes, it will be used only on ARM architecture, but maybe other architecture will
> start using it once it is available.
> 
There's very little about the code in question that is ARM-specific to
begin with. I plan to adopt similar changes on SH once the work has
settled one way or the other, so we'll probably use the VMA flag there,
too.