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SubjectRe: [RFC 3/5] dma-mapping: Enable global non-coherent pool support for RISC-V
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 02:40:29PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> Currently, linux,dma-default is used to reserve a global non-coherent pool
> to allocate memory for dma operations. This can be useful for RISC-V as
> well as the ISA specification doesn't specify a method to modify PMA
> attributes or page table entries to define non-cacheable area yet.
> A non-cacheable memory window is an alternate options for vendors to
> support non-coherent devices.

Please explain why you do not want to use the simply non-cachable
window support using arch_dma_set_uncached as used by mips, niops2 and
xtensa.

> +static int __dma_init_global_coherent(phys_addr_t phys_addr, dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size)




> {
> struct dma_coherent_mem *mem;
>
> - mem = dma_init_coherent_memory(phys_addr, phys_addr, size, true);
> + if (phys_addr == device_addr)
> + mem = dma_init_coherent_memory(phys_addr, device_addr, size, true);
> + else
> + mem = dma_init_coherent_memory(phys_addr, device_addr, size, false);

Nak. The phys_addr != device_addr support is goign away. This needs
to be filled in using dma-ranges property hanging of the struct device.

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