[PATCH v8 0/13] introduce GNTTABOP_cache_flush

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Tue Nov 11 03:16:03 PST 2014


On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:12:40PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > this patch series introduces support for GNTTABOP_cache_flush to perform
> > cache maintenance operation on foreign pages and reverts the current
> > code based on XENFEAT_grant_map_identity.
> > 
> > It also provides a very slow fallback by bouncing on the swiotlb buffer,
> > in case the hypercall is not available.
> > 
> > v7 introduces a flag named dma_coherent in dev_archdata and an accessor
> > function named is_device_dma_coherent in asm/dma-mapping.h under arm and
> > arm64.
> 
> Apart from a few minor comments I gave already, the series looks fine to
> me. Once addressed, you can add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Thank you very much for your help!



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