Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: add alloc_coherent dma_ops callback to GART driver

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 11:19:30 EST


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:16:49PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:39 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> > index 4d8efb0..44a75a6 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> > @@ -506,6 +506,26 @@ error:
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +/* allocate and map a coherent mapping */
> > +static void *
> > +gart_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_addr,
> > + gfp_t flag)
> > +{
> > + void *vaddr;
> > +
> > + vaddr = (void *)__get_free_pages(flag, get_order(size));
> > + if (!vaddr)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > + *dma_addr = gart_map_single(dev, __pa(vaddr), size, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> > + if (*dma_addr != bad_dma_address)
> > + return vaddr;
>
> I'm not sure a rule is documented or not, but I think that IOMMUs
> return zeroed memory wrt dma_alloc_coherent. The current pci-dma.c
> does, so I think that it would be better to keep the current behavior.

Ok, true. I will send and update patch to add this. Thanks.

Joerg

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