[PATCH 08/12] powerpc: make dma_cache_sync a no-op

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Aug 28 02:10:28 AEST 2017


powerpc does not implement DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT allocations, so it
doesn't make any sense to do any work in dma_cache_sync given that it
must be a no-op when dma_alloc_attrs returns coherent memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
index eaece3d3e225..320846442bfb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
@@ -144,8 +144,6 @@ static inline phys_addr_t dma_to_phys(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t daddr)
 static inline void dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
 		enum dma_data_direction direction)
 {
-	BUG_ON(direction == DMA_NONE);
-	__dma_sync(vaddr, size, (int)direction);
 }
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-- 
2.11.0



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