From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
ia64 list <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gurantee DMA area for alloc_bootmem_low() ver. 2.
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:23:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123691021.11313.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123643188.7069.8.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:15 -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > I modified the patch which guarantees allocation of DMA area
> > > at alloc_bootmem_low().
> >
> > I was going to replace more instances of __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) with
> > max_dma_physaddr(). However, when grepping for MAX_DMA_ADDRESS I
> > noticed instances of virt_to_phys(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) as well. Can
> > someone tell me what the differences are between __pa() and virt_to_phys().
One more thing is the obvious: __pa() is always a macro, and
virt_to_phys() is sometimes a function. __pa() can, therefore, be used
in assembly.
-- Dave
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
ia64 list <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gurantee DMA area for alloc_bootmem_low() ver. 2.
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:23:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123691021.11313.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123643188.7069.8.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:15 -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > I modified the patch which guarantees allocation of DMA area
> > > at alloc_bootmem_low().
> >
> > I was going to replace more instances of __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) with
> > max_dma_physaddr(). However, when grepping for MAX_DMA_ADDRESS I
> > noticed instances of virt_to_phys(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) as well. Can
> > someone tell me what the differences are between __pa() and virt_to_phys().
One more thing is the obvious: __pa() is always a macro, and
virt_to_phys() is sometimes a function. __pa() can, therefore, be used
in assembly.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-12 6:50 [PATCH] gurantee DMA area for alloc_bootmem_low() Yasunori Goto
2005-07-12 6:50 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-12 14:39 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-12 14:39 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-13 5:09 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-13 5:09 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-12 18:30 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-12 18:30 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-12 19:29 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-12 19:29 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-12 20:37 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-12 20:37 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-13 6:34 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-13 6:34 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-13 22:03 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-13 22:03 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-07-15 2:43 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-07-15 2:43 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-09 11:11 ` [PATCH] gurantee DMA area for alloc_bootmem_low() ver. 2 Yasunori Goto
2005-08-09 11:11 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-09 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-09 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-09 21:15 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-08-09 21:15 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-08-10 3:06 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-10 3:06 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-10 16:23 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-08-10 16:23 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-11 20:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-11 20:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-11 21:14 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-08-11 21:14 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-08-11 22:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-11 22:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-09 23:02 ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-09 23:02 ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-10 6:10 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-10 6:10 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-18 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 21:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 21:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 2:29 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-19 2:29 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-19 3:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 3:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 1:26 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-19 1:26 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-08-25 9:15 ` Yasunori Goto
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