Christoph Hellwig 7d5b5738d1 dma-mapping: add a dma_alloc_noncontiguous API ...

Add a new API that returns a potentiall virtually non-contigous sg_table
and a DMA address.  This API is only properly implemented for dma-iommu
and will simply return a contigious chunk as a fallback.

The intent is that drivers can use this API if either:

 - no kernel mapping or only temporary kernel mappings are required.
   That is as a better replacement for DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING
 - a kernel mapping is required for cached and DMA mapped pages, but
   the driver also needs the pages to e.g. map them to userspace.
   In that sense it is a replacement for some aspects of the recently
   removed and never fully implemented DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>

2021-03-15 10:02:31 +01:00

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