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 e36472145aa7 ("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>

Now that all the code that accesses the Comedi buffer data does so
page-by-page, using the `virt_addr` member of `struct comedi_buf_page`
to point to the data of each page, do not linearly map the buffer into
vmalloc address space (pointed to by the `prealloc_buf` member of
`struct comedi_async`).  That was only done for convenience, but was not
done for those drivers that need a DMA coherent buffer, which is
allocated in a single chunk.  Remove the `prealloc_buf` member as it is
no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250415114008.5977-4-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The aim is to get rid of the `prealloc_buf` member of `struct
comedi_async` and access the buffer contents on a page-by-page basis
using the addresses in the `virt_addr` member of `struct
comedi_buf_page`.  This will allow us to eliminate a `vmap()` that maps
the whole buffer.

Since the buffer pages have non-consecutive `virt_addr` addresses in
virtual memory (except for drivers using DMA), change the loops that
access buffer data to access it page-by-page.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250415114008.5977-3-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Move the main COMEDI driver headers out of "drivers/comedi/" into new
directory "include/linux/comedi/".  These are "comedidev.h",
"comedilib.h", "comedi_pci.h", "comedi_pcmcia.h", and "comedi_usb.h".
Additionally, move the user-space API header "comedi.h" into
"include/uapi/linux/" and add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to its
SPDX-License-Identifier.

Update the "COMEDI DRIVERS" section of the MAINTAINERS file to account
for these changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117120604.117740-2-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The comedi code came into the kernel back in 2008, but traces its
lifetime to much much earlier.  It's been polished and buffed and
there's really nothing preventing it from being part of the "real"
portion of the kernel.

So move it to drivers/comedi/ as it belongs there.

Many thanks to the hundreds of developers who did the work to make this
happen.

Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YHauop4u3sP6lz8j@kroah.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>