From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:40:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142613609.28538.47.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603170825540.3618@g5.osdl.org>
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> kmalloc may be backed by a "struct page", but the point is that it does
> not honor the page _count_, and as such it is totally unsuitable for any
> VM usage.
That's fine. We're not calling dma_free_coherent until after the page
count goes back down to one (the driver is once again the only user).
But this doesn't seem germane to what Nick brought up, anyway.
<b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 16:40 UTC|newest]
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2006-03-09 23:28 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:01 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 0:07 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:32 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 0:36 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-10 0:50 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 0:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 1:51 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 2:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 2:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 3:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 4:58 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 5:54 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 6:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 9:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 7:25 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 14:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 6:31 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 14:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 0:37 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 1:09 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 15:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 22:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 16:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 16:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2006-03-17 22:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-17 22:14 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 15:12 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 17:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 14:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 15:33 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 19:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 20:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 20:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-21 20:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-21 23:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-22 15:58 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-22 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-22 16:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-22 17:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-22 17:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 23:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 23:51 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver) Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 23:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 1:10 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 1:12 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-17 2:16 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-17 17:13 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver) Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 17:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-17 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 18:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-17 22:58 ` Remapping pages mapped to userspace Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 15:08 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-16 17:44 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 16:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-16 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 4:53 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 23:33 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:56 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:35 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - another round for review Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 0:35 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver Bryan O'Sullivan
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