Re: [PATCH] usb: chipidea: Configure DMA properties and ops from DT

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:54:14AM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> Although I don't know what kinds of bugs it may have, it may be
> met before, otherwise, why most of platform drivers need to call
> dma_set_coherent_mask or dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent explicitly

See Documentation/DMA-API.txt, specifically the section starting

  Part Ic - DMA addressing limitations
  ------------------------------------

and also Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt, the section on

  DMA addressing limitations

which provides further information.

Drivers using DMA should be using dma_set_mask_and_coherent() _or_
one of dma_set_mask() and dma_set_coherent_mask() depending on which
types of DMA they wish to perform.  Drivers should not use
dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent() except in exceptional circumstances:
that function is more a marker that they or some bus/platform code
is doing something wrong.

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