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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:54:18 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] drm: msm: Replace dma_map_sg with dma_sync_sg*
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> Maybe the thing we need to do is just implement a blacklist of
> compatible strings for devices which should skip the automatic
> iommu/dma hookup.  Maybe a bit ugly, but it would also solve a problem
> preventing us from enabling per-process pagetables for a5xx (where we
> need to control the domain/context-bank that is allocated by the dma
> api).

You can detach from the dma map attachment using arm_iommu_detach_device,
which a few drm drivers do, but I don't think this is the problem.