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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:24:31PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > Of course this still uses the scatterlist structure with its annoying
> > mix of input and output parametes, so I'd rather not expose it as
> > an official API at the DMA layer.
> 
> The problem with the above open coded approach is that it requires
> explicit handling of the non-IOMMU and IOMMU cases and this is exactly
> what we don't want to have in vb2 and what was actually the job of the
> DMA API to hide. Is the plan to actually move the IOMMU handling out
> of the DMA API?
> 
> Do you think we could instead turn it into a dma_alloc_noncoherent()
> helper, which has similar semantics as dma_alloc_attrs() and handles
> the various corner cases (e.g. invalidate_kernel_vmap_range and
> flush_kernel_vmap_range) to achieve the desired functionality without
> delegating the "hell", as you called it, to the users?

Yes, I guess I could do something in that direction.  At least for
dma-iommu, which thanks to Robin should be all you'll need in the
foreseeable future.