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ARM: dma-mapping: avoid calling dma_cache_maint_page() on dev=>cpu

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Avoid calling dma_cache_maint_page() when unmapping a DMA_TO_DEVICE
buffer.  The L1 cache ops never do anything in this circumstance, nor
do they ever need to - all that matters for this case is that the data
written is visible to the device before DMA starts.  What happens during
the transfer (provided the buffer is not written to) is of no real
consequence.

We already do this optimisation for the L2 cache.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King 2014-05-03 11:06:55 +01:00
parent 86f40622af
commit deace4a6b4
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -904,11 +904,12 @@ static void __dma_page_dev_to_cpu(struct page *page, unsigned long off,
unsigned long paddr = page_to_phys(page) + off;
/* FIXME: non-speculating: not required */
/* don't bother invalidating if DMA to device */
if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
/* in any case, don't bother invalidating if DMA to device */
if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE) {
outer_inv_range(paddr, paddr + size);
dma_cache_maint_page(page, off, size, dir, dmac_unmap_area);
dma_cache_maint_page(page, off, size, dir, dmac_unmap_area);
}
/*
* Mark the D-cache clean for these pages to avoid extra flushing.