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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:28:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040323092852.B21352@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040323020756.GS2045@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:07:56PM -0800

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:07:56PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I've already been over every ->nopage() in the kernel once (wrt. what's
> been merged anyway; a number of times for other reasons), so I really
> think I can do a bit of useful footwork here.

Note that currently I have dma_coherent_to_page(), dma_coherent_to_pfn()
and dma_coherent_mmap() (and maybe dma_coherent_munmap()) implemented
here.  I'm now taking a back seat in these discussions waiting for one
of them to take centre stage and be the One True chosen method.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-23  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-20 13:30 can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage? Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 14:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 15:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 15:27     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 15:44     ` Russell King
2004-03-20 15:57       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 16:15         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 16:25           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 16:57             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 17:48             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 19:03               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 15:58       ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 16:09         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 19:44           ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 22:23             ` Russell King
2004-03-20 22:45               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 23:54                 ` Russell King
2004-03-21  0:22                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-22  4:46                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-22 18:23                       ` Richard Curnow
2004-03-21  0:23                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21  9:52                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-21 10:39                   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-22  4:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-20 20:13     ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 20:28       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 20:50       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 22:26         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 22:45           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21 20:45             ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 20:49               ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 20:57                 ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 21:53                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 22:17                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:23                     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 22:23                     ` Russell King
2004-03-21 22:34                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:42                         ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 23:06                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:51                         ` Russell King
2004-03-21 23:09                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 23:11                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 23:22                             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 23:51                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 23:58                                 ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:34                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22  3:05                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-23 17:59                                   ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-23 17:58                                     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-23 18:11                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  0:02                                 ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-22  3:28                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-22  0:10                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  0:20                                   ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:33                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  4:57                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-21 23:45                             ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:23                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  0:29                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  1:28                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  3:45                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  4:41                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-03-22  4:46                                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  4:56                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-22  5:26                                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-22 11:58                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22 12:05                                               ` Russell King
2004-03-22 12:34                                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22  9:30                                       ` Russell King
2004-03-22 15:04                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-22 15:15                                           ` Russell King
2004-03-22 15:27                                             ` James Bottomley
2004-03-22 21:50                                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-22 22:18                                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22 22:35                                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22 23:57                                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-23  0:22                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-23  2:07                                                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23  9:28                                                         ` Russell King [this message]
2004-03-23  9:34                                                           ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-23 10:04                                                             ` Russell King
2004-03-23 10:05                                                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 11:29                                                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-23 11:35                                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-23 11:44                                                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 12:34                                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-23 12:40                                                               ` Russell King
2004-03-23 15:25                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-23 15:36                                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-23 15:46                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-23 15:50                                                                     ` Russell King
2004-03-23 22:10                                                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-25 20:25                                                                 ` Russell King
2004-03-28 10:17                                                                   ` Russell King
2004-03-23 12:49                                                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22 23:19                                                   ` Russell King
2004-03-22 23:35                                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-23  2:26                                                       ` James Bottomley
2004-03-22  6:36           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-20 17:56   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 18:22   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21  3:13   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-03-21  6:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21  7:00       ` Chris Wedgwood

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