Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] drm: msm: Replace dma_map_sg with dma_sync_sg*

[Vivek Gautam]

Hi Christoph ,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:10 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +             /*
> > +              * dma_sync_sg_*() flush the physical pages, so point
> > +              * sg->dma_address to the physical ones for the right behavior.
> > +              */
> > +             for_each_sg(msm_obj->sgt->sgl, s, msm_obj->sgt->nents, i)
> > +                     sg_dma_address(s) = sg_phys(s);
> > +
>
> I'm sorry, but this is completely bogus and not acceptable.
>
> The only place that is allowed to initialize sg_dma_address is
> dma_map_sg.  If the default dma ops don't work for your setup we have
> major a problem and need to fix the dma api / iommu integration instead
> of hacking around it.

Thanks for reviewing this change.
>From what I understand the things in drm, we don't use the default
iommu-dma domain
for drm devices. Rather we allocate a new iommu domain, and therefore we can't
use the default dma ops. Hence we need separate dma_sync_sg*() to
flush/invalidate
the cache. For this we need to initialize the sg's addresses.

Please correct me if my understanding is incomplete.

Best regards
Vivek



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