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Add a new API that returns a potentiall virtually non-contigous sg_table and a DMA address. This API is only properly implemented for dma-iommu and will simply return a contigious chunk as a fallback. The intent is that drivers can use this API if either: - no kernel mapping or only temporary kernel mappings are required. That is as a better replacement for DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING - a kernel mapping is required for cached and DMA mapped pages, but the driver also needs the pages to e.g. map them to userspace. In that sense it is a replacement for some aspects of the recently removed and never fully implemented DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> Tested-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
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