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R/M classes of cpus can have memory covered by MPU which in turn might configure RAM as Normal i.e. bufferable and cacheable. It breaks dma_alloc_coherent() and friends, since data can stuck in caches now or be buffered. This patch factors out DMA support for NOMMU configuration into separate entity which provides dedicated dma_ops. We have to handle there several cases: - configurations with MMU/MPU setup - configurations without MMU/MPU setup - special case for M-class, since caches and MPU there are optional In general we rely on default DMA area for coherent allocations or/and per-device memory reserves suitable for coherent DMA, so if such regions are set coherent allocations go from there. In case MMU/MPU was not setup we fallback to normal page allocator for DMA memory allocation. In case we run M-class cpus, for configuration without cache support (like Cortex-M3/M4) dma operations are forced to be coherent and wired with dma-noop (such decision is made based on cacheid global variable); however, if caches are detected there and no DMA coherent region is given (either default or per-device), dma is disallowed even MPU is not set - it is because M-class implement system memory map which defines part of address space as Normal memory. Reported-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com> Reported-by: Andras Szemzo <sza@esh.hu> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Tested-by: Andras Szemzo <sza@esh.hu> Tested-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> [hch: removed the dma_supported() implementation that isn't required anymore] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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