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<title>linux.git/arch/um/include/asm, branch v2.6.39</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>um: adjust current_thread_info() for newer gcc versions</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T18:28:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-27T22:26:54+00:00</published>
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In some cases gcc &gt;= 4.5.2 will optimize away current_thread_info().  To
prevent gcc from doing so the stack address has to be obtained via inline
asm.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In some cases gcc &gt;= 4.5.2 will optimize away current_thread_info().  To
prevent gcc from doing so the stack address has to be obtained via inline
asm.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: fix call tracer and bug handler</title>
<updated>2011-04-14T23:06:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-14T22:22:17+00:00</published>
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Commit 1de1502c ("x86, um: now we can get rid of trivial uml headers")
removed accidentally bug.h which broke UML's call tracer and bug
handler.

Without asm-generic/bug.h UML uses BUG() from arch/x86/ which makes use
of ud2.  UML cannot use ud2, it raises SIGILL in user mode.  As UML has
a different stack for handling signals the call trace will be cut off.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 1de1502c ("x86, um: now we can get rid of trivial uml headers")
removed accidentally bug.h which broke UML's call tracer and bug
handler.

Without asm-generic/bug.h UML uses BUG() from arch/x86/ which makes use
of ud2.  UML cannot use ud2, it raises SIGILL in user mode.  As UML has
a different stack for handling signals the call trace will be cut off.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T00:44:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T23:30:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=504f52b5439aaf26d3e2c1d45ec10fce38c8dd27'/>
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All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline</title>
<updated>2011-01-25T13:26:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-25T13:26:50+00:00</published>
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Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
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Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: fix ptrace build error</title>
<updated>2010-11-12T15:55:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-11T22:05:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8818b6719f1ecfdc1f27761704d0c9e2cbc48250'/>
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<content type='text'>
Both commits 0a3d763f1a68 ("ptrace: cleanup arch_ptrace() on um") and
9b05a69e0534 ("ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace()") broke the um
build.  This patch fixes the issues.

0a3d763f1a68 introduced the undeclared variable "datavp".  The patch seems
completely untested.  :-(

9b05a69e0534 changed arch_ptrace()'s signature but did not update
um/include/asm/ptrace-generic.h.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Newton &lt;will.newton@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Both commits 0a3d763f1a68 ("ptrace: cleanup arch_ptrace() on um") and
9b05a69e0534 ("ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace()") broke the um
build.  This patch fixes the issues.

0a3d763f1a68 introduced the undeclared variable "datavp".  The patch seems
completely untested.  :-(

9b05a69e0534 changed arch_ptrace()'s signature but did not update
um/include/asm/ptrace-generic.h.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Newton &lt;will.newton@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: define CONFIG_NO_DMA</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:22:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d911202e3f722c29065942400ea108b7096bdac7'/>
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<content type='text'>
I think that it's better to detect DMA misuse at build time rather than
calling BUG_ON.  Architectures that can't do DMA need to define
CONFIG_NO_DMA.

Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for explaining how CONFIG_NO_DMA and CONFIG_HAS_DMA
work:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=128359913825550&amp;w=2

HAS_DMA is defined like this:

config HAS_DMA
        boolean
        depends on !NO_DMA
        default y

So to set HAS_DMA to true an arch should do:
1) Do not define NO_DMA
2) Define NO_DMA abd set it to 'n'

Must archs - including um - used principle 1).

In the um case we want to say that we do NOT have any DMA.
This can be done in two ways.
a) define NO_DMA and set it to 'y'
b) redefine HAS_DMA and set it to 'n'.

The patch you provided used principle b) where other archs use principle a).
So I suggest you should use principle a) for um too.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I think that it's better to detect DMA misuse at build time rather than
calling BUG_ON.  Architectures that can't do DMA need to define
CONFIG_NO_DMA.

Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for explaining how CONFIG_NO_DMA and CONFIG_HAS_DMA
work:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=128359913825550&amp;w=2

HAS_DMA is defined like this:

config HAS_DMA
        boolean
        depends on !NO_DMA
        default y

So to set HAS_DMA to true an arch should do:
1) Do not define NO_DMA
2) Define NO_DMA abd set it to 'n'

Must archs - including um - used principle 1).

In the um case we want to say that we do NOT have any DMA.
This can be done in two ways.
a) define NO_DMA and set it to 'y'
b) redefine HAS_DMA and set it to 'n'.

The patch you provided used principle b) where other archs use principle a).
So I suggest you should use principle a) for um too.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove pte_*map_nested()</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:21:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ece0e2b6406a995c371e0311190631ea34ad851a'/>
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Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: fix IRQ flag handling naming</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:21:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dbec921370ea049eccd38e34e067373fb3bd9b01'/>
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Commit df9ee292 ("Fix IRQ flag handling naming") changed the IRQ flag
handling naming scheme and broke UML:

In file included from arch/um/include/asm/fixmap.h:5,
                 from arch/um/include/shared/um_uaccess.h:10,
                 from arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:41,
                 from arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:56,
                 from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
                 from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
                 from include/linux/time.h:8,
                 from include/linux/stat.h:60,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from init/main.c:13:
arch/um/include/asm/system.h:11:1: warning: "local_save_flags" redefined

This patch brings the new scheme to UML and makes it work again.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Commit df9ee292 ("Fix IRQ flag handling naming") changed the IRQ flag
handling naming scheme and broke UML:

In file included from arch/um/include/asm/fixmap.h:5,
                 from arch/um/include/shared/um_uaccess.h:10,
                 from arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:41,
                 from arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:56,
                 from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
                 from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
                 from include/linux/time.h:8,
                 from include/linux/stat.h:60,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from init/main.c:13:
arch/um/include/asm/system.h:11:1: warning: "local_save_flags" redefined

This patch brings the new scheme to UML and makes it work again.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: fix compile error in dma_get_cache_alignment()</title>
<updated>2010-08-20T16:34:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-19T21:13:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f3c072ad727617f00bffae17dba8cd895f5b7bdb'/>
<id>f3c072ad727617f00bffae17dba8cd895f5b7bdb</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix uml compile error:

  include/linux/dma-mapping.h:145: error: redefinition of 'dma_get_cache_alignment'
  arch/um/include/asm/dma-mapping.h:99: note: previous definition of 'dma_get_cache_alignment' was here

Introduced by commit 4565f0170dfc ("dma-mapping: unify
dma_get_cache_alignment implementations")

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Fix uml compile error:

  include/linux/dma-mapping.h:145: error: redefinition of 'dma_get_cache_alignment'
  arch/um/include/asm/dma-mapping.h:99: note: previous definition of 'dma_get_cache_alignment' was here

Introduced by commit 4565f0170dfc ("dma-mapping: unify
dma_get_cache_alignment implementations")

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: remove dma_is_consistent API</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt).  So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers.  We have only one user of the API in tree.  Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.

Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all.  It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all.  It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.

Let's remove this API.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt).  So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers.  We have only one user of the API in tree.  Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.

Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all.  It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all.  It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.

Let's remove this API.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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