From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
wgowcher@yahoo.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: pci_alloc_consistent usage
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:33:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030527123329.A7750@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030527112237.GA24905@linux-mips.org>; from ralf@linux-mips.org on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:22:37PM +0200
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:22:37PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> [...]
> portably refer to any piece of memory. If you have a cpu pointer
> (which may be validly DMA'd too) you may easily obtain the page
> and offset using something like this:
>
> struct page *page = virt_to_page(ptr);
> unsigned long offset = ((unsigned long)ptr & ~PAGE_MASK);
> [...]
>
> While it's officially documented I still don't like it.
Hmm, I remembered that some ports used vmalloc-like allocators for
this and virt_to_page doesn't work for those..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 21:59 pci_alloc_consistent usage Wayne Gowcher
2003-05-27 9:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-27 10:07 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2003-05-27 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-27 11:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-27 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-05-27 11:45 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-28 1:30 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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2004-07-13 13:01 pci_alloc_consistent() usage Vadivelan Mani
2004-07-13 19:29 ` Ralf Baechle
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