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...ld be to name the API > dma_alloc_noncoherent, but the whole non-coherent naming seems to put > people off. You say that like it's a bad thing. I think the problem is more that people don't understand what non-coherent means and think they're supporting it when they're not. dma_alloc_manual_flushing()? > As a follow up I plan to move the implementation of the > DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING flag over to this framework as well, given > that is also is a fundamentally non coherent allocation. The replacement > for that flag would then return a struct page, as it is allowed to >...

Hi all, this series replaced the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag to dma_alloc_attrs with a separate new dma_alloc_pages API, which is available on all platforms. In addition to cleaning up the convoluted code path, this ensures that other drivers that have asked for better support for non-coherent DMA to pages with incurring bounce buffering over can finally be properly supported. I'm still a