Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / scan: Parse _CCA and setup device coherency

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On 04/29/2015 09:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 08:44:09 Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
+                       device->flags.cca_seen = 1;
+               } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_MUST_HAVE_CCA)) {
+                       /*
+                        * Architecture has specified that if the device
+                        * can do DMA, it must have ACPI _CCA object.
+                        * Here, there could be two cases:
+                        *   1. Not DMA-able device.
+                        *   2. DMA-able device, but missing _CCA object.
+                        *
+                        * In both cases, we will default to dma non-coherent.
+                        */
+                       cca = 0;
+               } else {
+                       /*
+                        * If architecture does not specify that device must
+                        * specify ACPI _CCA (e.g. x86), we default to use
+                        * dma coherent.
+                        */
+                       cca = 1;
+               }


What does it mean here if a device does DMA but is not coherent? Do you
have an example of a server that needs this?

Can we please make the default for ARM64 cca=1 as well?

	Arnd


Actually, I am trying to implement the logic for when missing _CCA to be consistent with the behavior when the devicetree entry does not specify "dma-coherent" property. IIUC, in such case, Linux will default to using non-coherent DMA.

Thanks,

Suravee
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