[PATCH v6 0/7] ARM: Fix dma_alloc_coherent() and friends for NOMMU

[Benjamin Gaignard]

2017-06-27 19:36 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:54:17PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:27:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > I've applied patches 1, 3 and 4 to the dma-mapping tree.  2 will need
>> > a respin for less code duplication.  I'd be happy to take 5,6 and 7 if
>> > Russell is fine with that.
>>
>> If Vladimir is okay with those going in without patch 2, then I'm
>> happy - I seem to remember a mail from Vladimir stating that they
>> depended on some of the previous patches, but I don't know which.
>>
>> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>
> Thanks, I'll add them.  Patch 2 only adds optional mmap functionality,
> so it's not really required.  Although I'd really like to see a fixed
> up version that I can merge anyway.

Without mmap we will have a regression for nommu platform which are using
dma_alloc_coherent and specialy in drm/kms where dumb buffer are allocated
like that.
Even with this problem I think the patches should be merged but we should have
a quick fix for mmap.

Benjamin