Re: [PATCH 05/28] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT

[Tomasz Figa]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:57 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:49:01PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > With the default config it doesn't, but with
> > CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT_CACHE_SYNC enabled it makes dma_pgprot() keep
> > the pgprot value as is, without enforcing coherence attributes.
>
> Which isn't selected on arm64, and that is for a good reason.
>
> > AFAIK dma_cache_sync() isn't the only way to perform the cache
> > synchronization.
>
> Yes, it is the only documented way to do it.  And if you read the whole
> series instead of screaming you'd see that it provides a proper way
> to deal with non-coherent memory which will also work with arm64.
> instead of screaming
>

I'm sorry if I have offended you in any way, but would also appreciate
it if a less aggressive tone was directed towards me as well.

I have valid reasons to object to this patch, as stated in my previous
emails. The fact that the original feature has problems is of course
another story and, as I mentioned too, I'm willing to look into fixing
them.

I'm of course happy to review the rest of the series and even more
happy to help migrating this code to whatever is added there, as long
as the functionality is preserved.

> > By the way, as a videobuf2 reviewer, I'd appreciate being CC'd on any
> > series related to the subsystem-facing DMA API changes, since
> > videobuf2 is one of the biggest users of it.
>
> The cc list is too long - I cc lists and key maintainers.  As a reviewer
> should should watch your subsystems lists closely.

Well, I guess we can disagree on this, because there is no clear
policy. I'm listed in the MAINTAINERS file for the subsystem and I
believe the purpose of the file is to list the people to CC on
relevant patches. We're all overloaded with work and having to look
through the huge volume of mailing lists like linux-media doesn't help
and thus I'd still appreciate being added on CC.

Best regards,
Tomasz