On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 05:06:52PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> I don't think we need to go that far, I reckon it would be clear enough
> to just split the per-device vs. global pool interfaces, something like
> I've sketched out below (such that the ops->alloc implementation calls
> dma_alloc_from_global_coherent() if dma_alloc_from_contiguous() fails).
>
> If anyone wants to take that and run with it, feel free.
I like this basic idea. It also fits into one of my plans for the
4.14 merge window - I want to enhance the lib/dma-noop.c so that
it can use different allocators and mapping helpers, e.g. for
the allocators what makes sense is:
(1) simple page allocator (as-is)
(2) CMA
(3) swiotlb
(4) the OF coherent allocator from your draft patch
and then for the mapping into phys space we can use
(1) virto_to_phys (as-is)
(2) arch helper (e.g. like done in mips plat support)
(3) maybe some common form of ioremap / vmap instead of various
duplicates
With that we should be able to cosolidate most direct mapped
dma_ops for architectures that do not require cache flushing into
common code. As a next step we could think about useful cache
flushing hooks.
