From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Cc: Jamie Wellnitz <Jamie.Wellnitz@emulex.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: virt_to_page/pci_map_page vs. pci_map_single
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:02:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16294.53393.763572.291298@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq0sml5a63s.fsf@wildopensource.com>
>>>>> On 03 Nov 2003 09:17:59 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> said:
>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Wellnitz <Jamie.Wellnitz@emulex.com> writes:
Jamie> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:10:46AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> virt_to_page() can handle any page in the standard kernel region
Jamie> What is the "standard kernel region"? ZONE_NORMAL?
Jes> Hmmm, my brain has gotten ia64ified ;-) It's basically the normal
Jes> mappings of the kernel, ie. the kernel text/data/bss segments as well
Jes> as anything you do not get back as a dynamic mapping such as
Jes> ioremap/vmalloc/kmap.
I don't think it's safe to use virt_to_page() on static kernel
addresses (text, data, and bss). For example, ia64 linux nowadays
uses a virtual mapping for the static kernel memory, so it's not part
of the identity-mapped segment.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-03 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-02 18:12 virt_to_page/pci_map_page vs. pci_map_single Jamie Wellnitz
2003-11-03 8:10 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-03 12:52 ` Jamie Wellnitz
2003-11-03 14:17 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-03 22:02 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-11-04 0:41 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-04 9:44 ` Jes Sorensen
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2003-11-03 18:48 James Bottomley
2003-11-03 22:03 ` Jamie Wellnitz
2003-11-04 9:48 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-04 16:35 ` Matt Porter
2003-11-04 16:47 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-04 17:11 ` Matt Porter
2003-11-04 16:43 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-05 16:23 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-11-06 8:28 ` Jes Sorensen
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2003-11-04 8:41 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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