From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx135.postini.com [74.125.245.135]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8150C6B0081 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 12:53:28 -0400 (EDT) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Received: from euspt1 ([210.118.77.13]) by mailout3.w1.samsung.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.04 (built Jul 29 2009; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0M46006M6EVS7U70@mailout3.w1.samsung.com> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 17:52:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from ubuntu.arm.acom ([106.210.236.191]) by spt1.w1.samsung.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0M46008IQEWVMY@spt1.w1.samsung.com> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 17:53:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:53:04 +0200 From: Marek Szyprowski Subject: [PATCH 1/3] common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute In-reply-to: <1337273586-11089-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Message-id: <1337273586-11089-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> References: <1337273586-11089-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Marek Szyprowski , Kyungmin Park , Arnd Bergmann , Russell King - ARM Linux , Chunsang Jeong , Krishna Reddy , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Hiroshi Doyu , Subash Patel , Sumit Semwal , Abhinav Kochhar , Tomasz Stanislawski This patch adds DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute which lets the platform to avoid creating a kernel virtual mapping for the allocated buffer. On some architectures creating such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources (like kernel virtual address space or dma consistent address space). Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski --- Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 5c72eed..725580d 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -49,3 +49,21 @@ DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT lets the platform to choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory as it sees fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform that you have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory in the driver. + +DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING +-------------------------- + +DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING lets the platform to avoid creating a kernel +virtual mapping for the allocated buffer. On some architectures creating +such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources +(like kernel virtual address space or dma consistent address space). +Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space +by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing +that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You +can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and +dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute +set on each call. + +Since it is optional for platforms to implement +DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING, those that do not will simply ignore the +attribute and exhibit default behavior. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h index 547ab56..a37c10c 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ enum dma_attr { DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING, DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE, DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT, + DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING, DMA_ATTR_MAX, }; -- 1.7.10.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org