[PATCH 3/9] ARM: dma-mapping: convert DMA direction into IOMMU protection attributes

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Wed Jun 19 04:57:48 EDT 2013


Hello,

On 6/19/2013 10:52 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:37:03AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi Marek,
>
> > On 6/10/2013 8:34 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > IOMMU mappings take a prot parameter, identifying the protection bits
> > > to enforce on the newly created mapping (READ or WRITE). The ARM
> > > dma-mapping framework currently just passes 0 as the prot argument,
> > > resulting in faulting mappings.
> > >
> > > This patch infers the protection attributes based on the direction of
> > > the DMA transfer.
> > >
> > > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> >
> > Thanks for fixing this issue. Could I take this patch to my dma-mapping tree
> > with other dma-mapping changes I've collected recently or do you want my ack
> > and push it via other tree?
>
> Please, feel free to take it via the dma-mapping tree! That's probably the
> best route for it and there's nothing that really depends on it anyway.

Ok, thank I will put it on my tree. Thanks for your patches!

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland





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