Re: DMA-API attr - DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING

[Pankaj Suryawanshi <pankajssuryawanshi@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:24 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/07/2019 18:47, Pankaj Suryawanshi wrote:
> >> If you want a kernel mapping, *don't* explicitly request not to have a
> >> kernel mapping in the first place. It's that simple.
> >>
> >
> > Do you mean do not use dma-api ? because if i used dma-api it will give you
> > mapped virtual address.
> > or i have to use directly cma_alloc() in my driver. // if i used this
> > approach i need to reserved more vmalloc area.
>
> No, I mean just call dma_alloc_attrs() normally *without* adding the
> DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING flag. That flag means "I never ever want to
> make CPU accesses to this buffer from the kernel" - that is clearly not
> the case for your code, so it is utterly nonsensical to still pass the
> flag but try to hack around it later.


Actually my use case is that i want virtual mapping only when i will
play video as my vpu/gpu driver is design like that.
and  i am using 32-bit so virtual memory is splitted as 3G/1G so dont
have enough memory for all the time to mapped with kernel space.

Lets say i am allocating 400MB for driver but i want only 30MB for
virtual mapping (not everytime) that is the case.
>
>
> Robin.