[Freedreno] [PATCH 0/6] drm+dma: cache support for arm, etc

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:04:35PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> I don't disagree about needing an API to get uncached memory (or
> ideally just something outside of the linear map).  But I think this
> is a separate problem.
> 
> What I was hoping for, for v5.4, is a way to stop abusing dma_map/sync
> for cache ops to get rid of the hack I had to make for v5.3.  And also
> to fix vgem on non-x86.  (Unfortunately changing vgem to used cached
> mappings breaks x86 CI, but fixes CI on arm/arm64..)  We can do that
> without any changes in allocation.  There is still the possibility for
> problems due to cached alias, but that has been a problem this whole
> time, it isn't something new.

But that just means we start exposing random low-level APIs that
people will quickly abuse..  In fact even your simple plan to some
extent already is an abuse of the intent of these functions, and
it also requires a lot of knowledge in the driver that in the normal
cases drivers can't know (e.g. is the device dma coherent or not).