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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:55:51 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm: use swiotlb for bounce buffer on LPAE configs
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:23:50PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what is the reason stopping us from using dma-direct/swiotlb
> instead of arm_dma_ops altogether?

Nothing fundamental.  We just need to do a very careful piecemeal
migration as the arm code handles a ot of interesting corner case and
we need to ensure we don't break that.  I have various WIP patches
for the easier bits and we can work from there.