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Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when used with device tree

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when used with device tree
Date 2017-06-26 11:40 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:50:34PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 20/06/17 14:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Wouldn't the smal patch below solve the same issue in a simple way?
> 
> That assumes that all devices accessing a shared pool will have the same
>  dma_pfn_offset as the first one, which cannot strictly be relied upon
> (even if it is highly likely in practice).

Which seems like another argument why the global pool should be
a different implementation / interface than the per-device dma
mapping helpers..

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Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset  when used with device tree Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-06-20 15:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when  used with device tree Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> - 2017-06-20 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset  when used with device tree Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-06-26 11:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] drivers: dma-coherent: Account dma_pfn_offset when  used with device tree Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> - 2017-06-22 15:00 +0200

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