[PATCH 04/11] ia64: make dma_cache_sync a no-op

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Oct 3 21:43:04 AEDT 2017


ia64 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/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
index 3ce5ab4339f3..99dfc1aa9d3c 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@ static inline void
 dma_cache_sync (struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size,
 	enum dma_data_direction dir)
 {
-	/*
-	 * IA-64 is cache-coherent, so this is mostly a no-op.  However, we do need to
-	 * ensure that dma_cache_sync() enforces order, hence the mb().
-	 */
-	mb();
 }
 
 #endif /* _ASM_IA64_DMA_MAPPING_H */
-- 
2.14.1



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