Hi Olav, Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mapping and unmapping are more often than not in the critical path. > map_range and unmap_range allows SMMU driver implementations to optimize > the process of mapping and unmapping buffers into the SMMU page tables. > Instead of mapping one physical address, do TLB operation (expensive), > mapping, do TLB operation, mapping, do TLB operation the driver can map > a scatter-gatherlist of physically contiguous pages into one virtual > address space and then at the end do one TLB operation. > > Additionally, the mapping operation would be faster in general since > clients does not have to keep calling map API over and over again for > each physically contiguous chunk of memory that needs to be mapped to a > virtually contiguous region. > > Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/iommu.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > index e5555fc..f2a6b80 100644 > --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c > @@ -898,6 +898,30 @@ size_t iommu_unmap(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned long iova, size_t size) > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_unmap); > > > +int iommu_map_range(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned int iova, > + struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int len, int prot) > +{ > + if (unlikely(domain->ops->map_range == NULL)) > + return -ENODEV; > + > + BUG_ON(iova & (~PAGE_MASK)); > + > + return domain->ops->map_range(domain, iova, sg, len, prot); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_map_range); We have the similar one internally, which is named, "iommu_map_sg()", called from DMA API. > +int iommu_unmap_range(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned int iova, > + unsigned int len) > +{ > + if (unlikely(domain->ops->unmap_range == NULL)) > + return -ENODEV; > + > + BUG_ON(iova & (~PAGE_MASK)); > + > + return domain->ops->unmap_range(domain, iova, len); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_unmap_range); Can the existing iommu_unmap() do the same? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html