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On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:18:35PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> The existing code that deals with dma_alloc_attrs() without
> DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT would just call dma_get_sgtable_attrs() like
> here:

I know.  And dma_get_sgtable_attrs is fundamentally flawed and we
need to kill this interface as it just can't worked with virtually
tagged cases.  It is a prime example for an interface that looks
nice and simple but is plain wrong.