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* RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing
@ 2015-08-12  7:05 Christoph Hellwig
  2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 01/31] scatterlist: add sg_pfn and sg_has_page helpers Christoph Hellwig
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  0 siblings, 33 replies; 53+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2015-08-12  7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds, axboe
  Cc: dan.j.williams, vgupta, hskinnemoen, egtvedt, realmz6, dhowells,
	monstr, x86, dwmw2, alex.williamson, grundler, linux-kernel,
	linux-arch, linux-alpha, linux-ia64, linux-metag, linux-mips,
	linux-parisc, linuxppc-dev, linux-s390, sparclinux, linux-xtensa,
	linux-nvdimm, linux-media

Dan Williams started to look into addressing I/O to and from
Persistent Memory in his series from June:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/27944

I've started looking into DMA mapping of these SGLs specifically instead
of the map_pfn method in there.  In addition to supporting NVDIMM backed
I/O I also suspect this would be highly useful for media drivers that
go through nasty hoops to be able to DMA from/to their ioremapped regions,
with vb2_dc_get_userptr in drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.c
being a prime example for the unsafe hacks currently used.

It turns out most DMA mapping implementation can handle SGLs without
page structures with some fairly simple mechanical work.  Most of it
is just about consistently using sg_phys.  For implementations that
need to flush caches we need a new helper that skips these cache
flushes if a entry doesn't have a kernel virtual address.

However the ccio (parisc) and sba_iommu (parisc & ia64) IOMMUs seem
to be operate mostly on virtual addresses.  It's a fairly odd concept
that I don't fully grasp, so I'll need some help with those if we want
to bring this forward.

Additional this series skips ARM entirely for now.  The reason is
that most arm implementations of the .map_sg operation just iterate
over all entries and call ->map_page for it, which means we'd need
to convert those to a ->map_pfn similar to Dan's previous approach.

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2015-08-12  7:05 RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 01/31] scatterlist: add sg_pfn and sg_has_page helpers Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 02/31] scatterlist: use sg_phys() Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 03/31] dma-debug: handle page-less SG entries Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 04/31] x86/pci-nommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 05/31] x86/pci-calgary: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 06/31] alpha/pci-noop: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 07/31] alpha/pci_iommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 08/31] c6x: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 09/31] ia64/pci_dma: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 10/31] powerpc/iommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 11/31] sparc/iommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 12/31] mn10300: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 13/31] sparc/ldc: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 14/31] sparc32/io-unit: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 15/31] sparc32/iommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 16/31] s390: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12 11:51   ` Sebastian Ott
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 17/31] ia64/sba_iommu: remove sba_sg_address Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 18/31] nios2: handle page-less SG entries Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 19/31] arc: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12 10:28   ` Vineet Gupta
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 20/31] avr32: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  9:36   ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 21/31] blackfin: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 22/31] metag: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 23/31] sh: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 24/31] xtensa: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 25/31] frv: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 26/31] openrisc: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 27/31] mips: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 28/31] powerpc: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 29/31] parisc: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12 16:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-13 14:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-14  3:30       ` Dan Williams
2015-08-14  3:59         ` James Bottomley
2015-08-14  4:11           ` David Miller
2015-08-14 16:17             ` Dan Williams
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 30/31] intel-iommu: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12  9:51   ` David Woodhouse
2015-08-12  7:05 ` [PATCH 31/31] dma-mapping-common: skip kmemleak checks for " Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12 16:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-13 14:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-12 16:26   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-08-12 12:42 ` RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-12 23:37   ` Julian Calaby
2015-08-13 14:35     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-13 23:40       ` Julian Calaby
2015-08-13 14:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-13 15:42     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-12 17:00 ` James Bottomley
2015-08-12 17:56   ` Grant Grundler

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