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Depending on the driver, the acquisition buffer is allocated either from
normal memory, or from DMA coherent memory. For normal memory, the
buffer is allocated as individual pages, but for DMA coherent memory, it
is allocated as a single block. Prior to commit e36472145a ("staging:
comedi: use dma_mmap_coherent for DMA-able buffer mmap"), the buffer was
allocated as individual pages for DMA coherent memory too, but that was
changed to allocate it as a single block to allow `dma_mmap_coherent()`
to be used to mmap it, because that requires the pages being mmap'ed to
be contiguous.
This patch allocates the buffer from DMA coherent memory a page at a
time again, and works around the limitation of `dma_mmap_coherent()` by
calling it in a loop for each page, with temporarily modified `vm_start`
and `vm_end` values in the VMA. (The `vm_pgoff` value is 0.)
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250415114008.5977-5-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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