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Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:13:30 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] dma-mapping: create iommu mapping for newly
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:30:54AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> > I think the first step is to move the two USB controller that can only
> > DMA to their own BAR off the existing DMA coherent infrastructure.  The
> > controllers are already identified using the HCD_LOCAL_MEM flag, so we
> > just need to key off that in the hcd_buffer_* routines and call into a
> 
> So if HCD_LOCAL_MEM is set I should call into the gen_pool api instead 
> of existing dma_{alloc,free}_coherent().

Yes.

> > genalloc that has been fed using the bar, replacing the current
> > dma_declare_coherent usage.  Take a look at drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
> > for another example of allocating bits of a BAR using genalloc.
> 
> Where should I place the reference to the gen_pool? How does local_pool 
> in 'struct hcd_usb' sound?

Sounds fine to me, but in the end the usb maintainers will have
to decide.