[RFC 0/5] ARM: dma-mapping: New dma_map_ops to control IOVA more precisely

[Stephen Warren]

On 09/20/2012 12:40 AM, Krishna Reddy wrote:
>>> On Tegra, the following use cases need specific IOVA mapping.
>>> 1. Few MMIO blocks need IOVA=PA mapping setup.
>>
>> In that case, why would we enable the IOMMU for that one device; IOMMU
>> disabled means VA==PA, right? Perhaps isolation of the device so it can only
>> access certain PA ranges for security?
> 
> The device(H/W controller) need to access few special memory blocks(IOVA==PA)
> and DRAM as well.

OK, so only /some/ of the VA space is VA==PA, and some is remapped;
that's a little different that what you originally implied above.

BTW, which HW module is this; AVP/COP or something else. This sounds
like an odd requirement.

> There is also a case where frame buffer memory is passed from BootLoader to Kernel and
> display H/W  continues to access it with IOMMU enabled. To support this, the one to one
> mapping has to be setup before enabling IOMMU.

Yes, that makes sense.