[PATCH] arm64: Fix the DMA mmap and get_sgtable API with DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu May 4 10:58:54 PDT 2017


On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 04:08:29PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > Going through the past threads on this, I wonder whether the attribute
> > is actually used anywhere (in which case we may be better off reverting
> > the original patch). If improved IOMMU performance is required, there
> 
> AFAIK, the users are somewhere in the pipeline.

Let's hope we are going to see some users soon. I'll push the fix as
well to avoid a regression (though I cannot fully test your patch, nor
my fix).

-- 
Catalin



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