On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:11:35PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 10:58 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Please don't introduce new DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT users, it is > > a rather horrible interface, and I plan to kill it off rather sooner > > than later. I plan to post some patches for a better interface > > that can reuse the normal dma_sync_single_* interfaces for ownership > > transfers. I can happily include usb in that initial patch set based > > on your work here if that helps. > > Please do. Until we have proper allocators that go thru the DMA API, > drivers will have to kmalloc the USB transfer buffers, and have > streaming mappings. Which in turns mean not using IOMMU or CMA. dma_map_page will of course use the iommu.
