DMA mapping API(IOMMU) for ARM64?

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jun 18 08:51:50 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 18 June 2013, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> I'm guessing that this kind of unification usually takes some time
> since we need to factor out the common code from the different
> ${ARCH}/mm/dma-mapping.c. Also some of ${ARCH} has IOMMU support in
> it. So if we want to develop our 64-bit ARM with working DMA mapping
> API during this transition, the step to take would be:
> 
> 1, Copy arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c(+swiotlb)

Please don't.

> 2, Adapt arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c(+swiotlb) to 64bit compatible.
> 3, Factor out the common code from them into mm/dma-mapping.c

I would suggest moving the ARM dma-mapping.c code to /mm or /lib
right away and then generalizing it there. Whoever wants to add
support for their architecture can modify the code to add whatever
changes they require.

	Arnd



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