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Christoph noticed [1] that default DMA pool in current form overload the DMA coherent infrastructure. In reply, Robin suggested [2] to split the per-device vs. global pool interfaces, so allocation/release from default DMA pool is driven by dma ops implementation. This patch implements Robin's idea and provide interface to allocate/release/mmap the default (aka global) DMA pool. To make it clear that existing *_from_coherent routines work on per-device pool rename them to *_from_dev_coherent. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/370 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/431 Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Tested-by: Andras Szemzo <sza@esh.hu> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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