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Hi Christoph,

On 29/06/22 18:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:38:00AM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>> That's one of the 'liberties' I alluded to. The reason I left these in is
>> that I'm none too certain what device feature the DMA API uses to decide a
>> device isn't cache-coherent.
> The DMA API does not look at device features at all.  It needs to be
> told so by the platform code.  Once an architecture implements the
> hooks to support non-coherent DMA all devices are treated as
> non-coherent by default unless overriden by the architecture either
> globally (using the global dma_default_coherent variable) or per-device
> (using the dev->dma_coherent field, usually set by arch_setup_dma_ops).
Haven't got any of that, so non-coherent DMA is all we can use (even 
though some of the RAM used for bounce buffers may actually be coherent 
due to the page table cache bits).
>
>> If it's dev->coherent_dma_mask, the way I set
>> up the device in the a3000 driver should leave the coherent mask unchanged.
>> For the Zorro drivers, devices are set up to use the same storage to store
>> normal and coherent masks - something we most likely want to change. I need
>> to think about the ramifications of that.
> No, the coherent mask is slightly misnamed amd not actually related.

Thanks, that had me confused.

Cheers,

     Michael