Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm-nommu: Add use_reserved_mem() to check if device support reserved memory

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:22:24PM +0800, dillon min wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> Thanks for reviewing.
> 
> Hi Christoph Hellwig,
> 
> I just want to know if kernel dma mapping/direct is focused on
> platforms with MMU.
> leave arch code to handle dma coherent memory management themself for
> no-MMU platform.

No, I'd really like to consolidate everything that isn't overly
arch specific eventually.

> 
> so, you just return error code in kernel/dma/mapping.c,direct.c
> without CONFIG_MMU defined ?
> which means dma-direct mapping doesn't support !CONFIG_MMU is not a
> bug, but design as it's.
> or, just return error code currently, will add dma direct mapping
> support for !CONFIG_MMU in the
> future?
> 
> As Vladimir Murzin's suggestion has changes in kernel code, I need
> your input to get
> the design goal about dma-direct mapping, thanks.

Can someone repost the whole patch?