Catalin, Robin,
On 2016?05?23? 21:35, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:44:14AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 23/05/16 02:37, Shunqian Zheng wrote:
>>> From: Simon <xxm at rock-chips.com>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon <xxm at rock-chips.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c | 4 ++++
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
>>> index 043d18c..1741b65 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
>>> @@ -95,12 +95,16 @@ struct rk_iommu {
>>>
>>> static inline void rk_table_flush(u32 *va, unsigned int count)
>>> {
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM)
>>> phys_addr_t pa_start = virt_to_phys(va);
>>> phys_addr_t pa_end = virt_to_phys(va + count);
>>> size_t size = pa_end - pa_start;
>>>
>>> __cpuc_flush_dcache_area(va, size);
>>> outer_flush_range(pa_start, pa_end);
>>> +#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
>>> + __dma_flush_range(va, va + count);
>>> +#endif
>> Ugh, please don't use arch-private cache maintenance functions directly from
>> a driver. Allocating/mapping page tables to be read by the IOMMU is still
>> DMA, so using the DMA APIs is the correct way to manage them, *especially*
>> if it needs to work across multiple architectures.
It's easier for us if changing the __dma_flush_range() to
__flush_dcache_area() is acceptable here?
Thank you,
- shunqian
> I fully agree, these functions should not be used in drivers.
