Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753125Ab2JPGFG (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:05:06 -0400 Received: from hqemgate03.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.140]:5359 "EHLO hqemgate03.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317Ab2JPGFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:05:04 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:04:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:04:34 +0300 From: Hiroshi Doyu To: Marek Szyprowski , Inki Dae CC: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Kyungmin Park , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC 0/2] DMA-mapping & IOMMU - physically contiguous allocations Message-ID: <20121016090434.7d5e088152a3e0b0606903c8@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1350309832-18461-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta3 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-NVConfidentiality: public MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1975 Lines: 44 Hi Inki/Marek, On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:50:16 +0200 Inki Dae wrote: > 2012/10/15 Marek Szyprowski : > > Hello, > > > > Some devices, which have IOMMU, for some use cases might require to > > allocate a buffers for DMA which is contiguous in physical memory. Such > > use cases appears for example in DRM subsystem when one wants to improve > > performance or use secure buffer protection. > > > > I would like to ask if adding a new attribute, as proposed in this RFC > > is a good idea? I feel that it might be an attribute just for a single > > driver, but I would like to know your opinion. Should we look for other > > solution? > > > > In addition, currently we have worked dma-mapping-based iommu support > for exynos drm driver with this patch set so this patch set has been > tested with iommu enabled exynos drm driver and worked fine. actually, > this feature is needed for secure mode such as TrustZone. in case of > Exynos SoC, memory region for secure mode should be physically > contiguous and also maybe OMAP but now dma-mapping framework doesn't > guarantee physically continuous memory allocation so this patch set > would make it possible. Agree that the contigous memory allocation is necessary for us too. In addition to those contiguous/discontiguous page allocation, is there any way to _import_ anonymous pages allocated by a process to be used in dma-mapping API later? I'm considering the following scenario, an user process allocates a buffer by malloc() in advance, and then it asks some driver to convert that buffer into IOMMU'able/DMA'able ones later. In this case, pages are discouguous and even they may not be yet allocated at malloc()/mmap(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/