[PATCH 05/28] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Wed Aug 19 15:57:38 CEST 2020
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
> 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.
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