Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:40:47 +0900
To: mitov@issp.bas.bg
Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-media@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] add
 dma_reserve_coherent_memory()/dma_free_reserved_memory() API
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:50:12 +0300
Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> wrote:

> On Friday, August 20, 2010 11:35:06 am FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:13:45 +0300
> > Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > This tric is already used in drivers/staging/dt3155v4l.c
> > > > > dt3155_alloc_coherent()/dt3155_free_coherent()
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here proposed for general use by popular demand from video4linux folks.
> > > > > Helps for videobuf-dma-contig framework.
> > > > 
> > > > What you guys exactly want to do? If you just want to pre-allocate
> > > > coherent memory for latter usage,
> > > 
> > > Yes, just to preallocate not coherent, but rather contiguous memory for latter usage.
> > > We use coherent memory because it turns out to be contiguous.
> > 
> > Hmm, you don't care about coherency? You just need contiguous memory?
> 
> Yes. We just need contiguous memory. Coherency is important as far as when dma
> transfer finishes user land is able to see the new data. Could be done by something like
> dma_{,un}map_single()

Then, we should avoid using coherent memory as I exaplained before. In
addition, dma_alloc_coherent can't provide large enough contigous
memory for some drivers so this patch doesn't help much.

We need the proper API for contiguous memory. Seem that we could have
something:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/20/167
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