Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 2021 07:24:03 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Apple M1 DART IOMMU driver |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 07:19:50PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote: > Even at the DMA API level you could hide *some* of it (at the cost of > effectively only having 1/4 of the usable address space), but there are > still cases like where v4l2 has a hard requirement that a page-aligned > scatterlist can be mapped into a contiguous region of DMA addresses.
Where does v4l2 make that broken assumption? Plenty of dma mapping implementations including dma-direct do not support that.
Drivers need to call dma_get_merge_boundary() to check for that kind of behavior.
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