On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:19:14 Will Deacon wrote:
I've spoken briefly with Catalin about this and it seems like there might be *some* scope for sharing common dma-mapping code between architectures. There doesn't really need to be any architecture-specific details in allocating iova space and the interface to the iommu drivers is well-defined. The arch-specific stuff is bogged down in the non-coherent buffer management, but that doesn't necessarily equate to lots of code.
So, the best bet would be to figure out how to split up what we have under arch/arm/ so that it can be re-used by arm64 and potentially other architectures (powerpc has some simple stuff for coherent mappings and some less-simple stuff for non-coherent buffers).
I'm sure that other architectures are interested in sharing the code. Best move it into the global mm/ directory, at least the version for coherent mappings.
Arnd