[PATCHv4 3/5] common: dma-mapping: Introduce common remapping functions
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Jul 23 04:16:09 PDT 2014
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 02:35:06AM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> +void dma_common_free_remap(void *cpu_addr, size_t size, unsigned long vm_flags)
> +{
> + struct vm_struct *area = find_vm_area(cpu_addr);
> +
> + if (!area || (area->flags & vm_flags) != vm_flags) {
> + WARN(1, "trying to free invalid coherent area: %p\n", cpu_addr);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + unmap_kernel_range((unsigned long)cpu_addr, size);
> + vunmap(cpu_addr);
> +}
One more thing - is unmap_kernel_range() needed here? vunmap() ends up
calling vunmap_page_range(), same as unmap_kernel_range(). I think one
difference is that in the vunmap case, TLB flushing is done lazily.
--
Catalin
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list