[PATCH 2/2] arm64: Support DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Mar 13 13:52:31 EDT 2014
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 05:45:16PM +0000, Laura Abbott wrote:
> DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE is currently ignored. Set the pgprot
> appropriately for non coherent opperations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> Potential addition on top of the coherent work as well. Writecombine
> and dmacoherent seem to be the same at the moment but it might be
> good practice to have the two be separate?
>
> arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 13 +++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 9a639bf..d2c0027 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,15 @@
> struct dma_map_ops *dma_ops;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_ops);
>
> +
> +static inline pgprot_t __get_dma_pgprot(struct dma_attrs *attrs, pgprot_t prot)
> +{
> + prot = dma_get_attr(DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE, attrs) ?
> + pgprot_writecombine(prot) :
> + pgprot_dmacoherent(prot);
> + return prot;
> +}
pgprot_writecombine and pgprot_dmacoherent are the same on arm64 (and
ARMv6/v7). So when the DMA is coherent on an SoC, we need to leave the
prot unchanged if !DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE.
--
Catalin
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