From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:36:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304213634.GH13417@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003042211.28569.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:11:08PM +0100, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> I do not understand the purpose of the failing check. The virt_addr_valid()
> macro checks whether its argument is below high_memory. But why would the
> virtual address of a DMA data buffer matter at all? After all, the pages
> are resident, so I cannot see any problem here. Can anybody explain?
Cache maintainence is done using virtual addresses for L1, and
physical addresses for L2. There's the need for virtual addresses
to be translatable to physical addresses, which is only true for
the kernel direct mapped region (pages between PAGE_OFFSET and
high_memory).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 21:11 Thomas Koeller
2010-03-04 21:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-03-06 13:07 ` Thomas Koeller
2010-03-06 19:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 7:45 ` Lin Mac
2010-03-09 9:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 9:29 ` David Miller
2010-03-09 10:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 10:20 ` David Miller
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