dma coherent memory user-space maps

[Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware)]

Hi, Christoph,

Following our previous discussion I wonder if something along the lines 
of the following could work / be acceptible

typedef unsigned long dma_pfn_t /* Opaque pfn type. Arch dependent. This 
could if needed be a struct with a pointer and an offset */

/* Similar to vmf_insert_mixed() */
vm_fault_t dma_vmf_insert_mixed(struct device *dev,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ struct vm_area_struct *vma,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ unsigned long addr,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ dma_pfn_t dpfn,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ unsigned long attrs);

/* Similar to vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() */
vm_fault_t dma_vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct device *dev,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ Â struct vm_area_struct *vma,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ Â unsigned long addr,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ Â dma_pfn_t dpfn,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ Â unsigned long attrs);

/* Like vmap, but takes struct dma_pfns. */
extern void *dma_vmap(struct device *dev,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂÂ dma_pfn_t dpfns[],
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂÂ unsigned int count, unsigned long flags,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂÂ unsigned long attrs);

/* Obtain struct dma_pfn pointers from a dma coherent allocation */
int dma_get_dpfns(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ Â pgoff_t offset, pgoff_t num, dma_pfn_t dpfns[]);

I figure, for most if not all architectures we could use an ordinary pfn 
as dma_pfn_t, but the dma layer would still have control over how those 
pfns are obtained and how they are used in the kernel's mapping APIs.

If so, I could start looking at this, time permitting, for the cases 
where the pfn can be obtained from the kernel address or from 
arch_dma_coherent_to_pfn(), and also the needed work to have a tailored 
vmap_pfn().

Thanks,
/Thomas