For dma_alloc_coherent() you don't need writel/readl because
it's just a plain old void *. Linux tries very hard to make a
distinction between io memory (void __iomem *) and memory
(void *) so that drivers are portable to architectures that
don't have a way to access registers via pointer dereferences.
You can see http://lwn.net/Articles/102232/ and the Linus rant
http://lwn.net/Articles/102240/ here for more details behind
the motivation.
msm: kgsl: Allocate physical pages instead of using vmalloc
Replace vmalloc allocation with physical page allocation. For most
allocations we do not need a kernel virual address. vmalloc uses up
the kernel virtual address space. By replacing vmalloc with physical
page alloction and mapping that allocation to kernel space only
when it is required prevents the kgsl driver from using unnecessary
vmalloc virtual space.
Some hangs are fooling the postmortem dump code into
running off the end of a buffer. Fix this by making
its bounds check logic work better by reusing the
logic from kgsl_find_region().
Userspace will set a flag in the context if preambles are in use. If
they are, we can safely skip save and restore commands for the
context. GMEM save/restore is still required. To improve performance,
preamble commands are skipped when the context hasn't changed since
the last issueibcmds.
from Code Aurora
