Re: [PATCH for-next 2/4] RDMA/hns: Add IOMMU enable support in hip08

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:45:29AM +0800, Wei Hu (Xavier) wrote:

>     We reconstruct the code as below:

>             It replaces dma_alloc_coherent with __get_free_pages and
> dma_map_single functions. So, we can vmap serveral ptrs returned by
> __get_free_pages, right?

Can't you just use vmalloc and dma_map that? Other drivers follow that
approach..

However, dma_alloc_coherent and dma_map_single are not the same
thing. You can't touch the vmap memory once you call dma_map unless
the driver also includes dma cache flushing calls in all the right
places.

The difference is that alloc_coherent will return non-cachable memory
if necessary, while get_free_pages does not.

Jason