[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: snd_dmaengine: add common api for pcm_mmap

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 06/28/2012 03:51 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:06:07 +0530,
> Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> [...]
> 
> But, still we need to be careful about this.  As mentioned, there is
> no flag to know the possibility of writecombine mmap beforehand.
> It'd be nice if we have either a compile-time or a run-time flag /
> function to check that.  Then the driver can also expose the mmap
> capability to user-space depending on the flag.
> 

If writecombine is not supported it will fallback to a "normal" mmap.
Here's an excerpt from the DMA mapping documentation:

DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
----------------------

DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
buffered to improve performance.

Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
behavior.

- Lars