From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
hch@lst.de, cotte@de.ibm.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:58:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142571490.9022.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603161659210.3618@g5.osdl.org>
> Quite frankly, I don't think nopfn() is a good interface. It's only usable
> for one single thing, so trying to claim that it's a generic VM op is
> really not valid. If (and that's a big if) we need this interface, we
> should just do it inside mm/memory.c instead of playing games as if it was
> generic.
Or just use sparsemem and create struct pages for your hw :) we do that
for SPUs on Cell, works like a charm.
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
hch@lst.de, cotte@de.ibm.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:58:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142571490.9022.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603161659210.3618@g5.osdl.org>
> Quite frankly, I don't think nopfn() is a good interface. It's only usable
> for one single thing, so trying to claim that it's a generic VM op is
> really not valid. If (and that's a big if) we need this interface, we
> should just do it inside mm/memory.c instead of playing games as if it was
> generic.
Or just use sparsemem and create struct pages for your hw :) we do that
for SPUs on Cell, works like a charm.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 16:55 [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler Jes Sorensen
2006-03-16 16:55 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-17 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-17 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 2:13 ` Robin Holt
2006-03-17 2:13 ` Robin Holt
2006-03-17 4:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-03-17 4:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-17 9:15 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 9:15 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 13:29 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 13:29 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-17 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-17 9:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 9:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 12:29 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 12:29 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 12:28 ` [patch 1/2] do_no_pfn handler (was: Re: [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler) Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 12:28 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 12:38 ` [patch 2/2] mspec driver " Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 12:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 13:36 ` [patch 2/2] mspec driver Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 13:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 14:04 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 14:04 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 14:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 14:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 14:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 14:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 14:16 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 14:16 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 13:51 ` [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 13:51 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 13:53 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 13:53 ` Carsten Otte
2006-03-17 13:56 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 13:56 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 13:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-17 13:58 ` Jes Sorensen
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