Re: [PATCH] arm64: Add support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC attribute to swiotlb

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jan 12 2017 - 10:35:06 EST


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> From: Takeshi Kihara <takeshi.kihara.df@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC attribute for
> dma_{un}map_{page,sg} functions family to swiotlb.
>
> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of
> the CPU cache for the given buffer assuming that it has been already
> transferred to 'device' domain.
>
> Ported from IOMMU .{un}map_{sg,page} ops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takeshi Kihara <takeshi.kihara.df@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> - Add Acked-by.
>
> Support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC was included when porting the IOMMU
> ops from arm to arm64 in commit 13b8629f651164d7 ("arm64: Add IOMMU
> dma_ops").
>
> Presumably it was an oversight that the existing swiotlb based
> implementation didn't have support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC yet?
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks. Applied for 4.11, with Robin's Reviewed-by.

Will