From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754002AbaEAOHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 10:07:42 -0400 Received: from comal.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.152]:36665 "EHLO comal.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751870AbaEAOHk (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 10:07:40 -0400 Message-ID: <53625502.1040808@ti.com> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 10:06:58 -0400 From: Santosh Shilimkar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , Rob Herring CC: , , , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Olof Johansson , Grant Likely , Catalin Marinas , Linus Walleij , Grygorii Strashko Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent References: <1398353407-2345-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <536249D6.3020008@ti.com> <20140501132516.GG26756@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140501132516.GG26756@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 01 May 2014 09:25 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:19:18AM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> Rob, Russell, >> >> On Thursday 24 April 2014 11:30 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >>> Here is an updated v3 of the series. Series introduces support for setting up >>> dma parameters based on device tree properties like 'dma-ranges' and >>> 'dma-coherent' and also update to ARM 32 bit port. Earlier version of the >>> series can be found here [3], [2] and [1]. >>> >>> The 'dma-ranges' helps to take care of few DMAable system memory restrictions >>> by use of dma_pfn_offset which we maintain now per device. Arch code then >>> uses it for dma address translations for such cases. We update the >>> dma_pfn_offset accordingly during DT the device creation process.The >>> 'dma-coherent' property is used to setup arch's coherent dma_ops. >>> >>> Hopefully with acks, tested-by this version can get into 3.16 queue. I will >>> post a followup series for Keystone SOC which will use this infrastructure. >>> Linus W also wants to use this for ARM integrator platform dma offset issue. >>> >>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman >>> Cc: Russell King >>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann >>> Cc: Olof Johansson >>> Cc: Grant Likely >>> Cc: Rob Herring >>> Cc: Catalin Marinas >>> Cc: Linus Walleij >>> Cc: Grygorii Strashko >>> >>> Grygorii Strashko (2): >>> of: introduce of_dma_get_range() helper >>> ARM: dma: Use dma_pfn_offset for dma address translation >>> >>> Santosh Shilimkar (5): >>> device: introduce per device dma_pfn_offset >>> of: introduce of_dma_is_coherent() helper >>> of: configure the platform device dma parameters >>> ARM: dma: implement set_arch_dma_coherent_ops() >>> ARM: dma: use phys_addr_t in __dma_page_[cpu_to_dev/dev_to_cpu] >>> >>> arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 28 ++++++++++-- >>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 4 +- >>> drivers/of/address.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> drivers/of/platform.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- >>> include/linux/device.h | 2 + >>> include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 7 +++ >>> include/linux/of_address.h | 8 ++++ >>> include/linux/of_platform.h | 6 +++ >>> 8 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >>> >> How do we go about merging this series ? There is a dependency >> between the patches and hence the question. > > I don't know anymore. People today want to assert exclusive rights over > parts of the kernel tree, which makes this kind of cross-patching rather > impossible. > > The only workable solution I can see is the long winded way to split the > series up, merge the first set of dependencies in one merge window, and > hold the rest back for the following merge window. Not ideal, but it > stops the arguments. > I really hope we don't have to go this route. I think since the changes as such used for ARM arch for now, if we get this series via your tree or arm-soc which pulls your tree, things should work. I also have small series on the list on top of $subject series which enables coherency for Keystone. Regards, Santosh