Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/msm: add DRM_MSM_GEM_SYNC_CACHE for non-coherent cache maintenance

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jonathan Marek wrote:
> One example why drm/msm can't use DMA API is multiple page table support
> (that is landing in 5.10), which is something that definitely couldn't work
> with DMA API.
> 
> Another one is being able to choose the address for mappings, which AFAIK
> DMA API can't do (somewhat related to this: qcom hardware often has ranges
> of allowed addresses, which the dma_mask mechanism fails to represent, what
> I see is drivers using dma_mask as a "maximum address", and since addresses
> are allocated from the top it generally works)

That sounds like a good enough rason to use the IOMMU API.  I just
wanted to make sure this really makes sense.