From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 03:12:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203051112.DAA03159@adam.yggdrasil.com> (raw)
I am trying to convert linux-2.5.6-pre2/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
to the DMA mapping system described in Documenation/DMA-mapping.txt
in an effort to try to help to make all of the drivers compile again.
I have a question that would help me with this process, and probably
others who has occasion to fiddle with any of the many devices covered
by this question.
According to DMA-mapping.txt, I am allowed to use use
an address returned from kmalloc as a DMA address, without
need to convert by pci_map_single or allocate space with
pci_alloc_consistent. The advansys.c hardware (and probably
many PCI devices) asssumes 32-bit addresses. Can I rely on
on all architectures that support PCI or ISA that kmalloc
will always return an address below 2**32 if GFP_HIGHMEM
is not specified? If not, then I guess I can use
pci_alloc_consistent and pci_map_single as necessary, since they
should can potentially know that I am using a device that
only understands 32-bit addresses, from my earlier call to
pci_set_dma_mask. However, I assume that it is considered
simpler and therefore better to avoid these routines when possible.
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next reply other threads:[~2002-03-05 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-05 11:12 Adam J. Richter [this message]
2002-03-05 11:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 15:43 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-03-05 16:44 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-06 1:31 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-06 2:04 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-05 15:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-06 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-06 1:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 11:52 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 11:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 14:43 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 15:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 16:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 17:00 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-05 21:57 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-03-06 7:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 17:08 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-06 1:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-06 2:28 Adam J. Richter
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