From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: "Anoop P.A." <Anoop_P.A@pmc-sierra.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: TITAN GE driver
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 06:48:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100602134810.GC4388@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7DEA48C84FD0B48AAAE33F328C0201404E2DCA0@BBY1EXM11.pmc_nt.nt.pmc-sierra.bc.ca>
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:58:06AM -0400, Anoop P.A. wrote:
> Ralf,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> > > allocated with same prefix. In another words all the buffers should
> be
> > > below < 0x1fff_ffff ( physical address) or between 0x2000_0000 and
> > > 0x3fff_ffff like that.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to force kmalloc to allocate memory in certain
> region
> > > or below some region?
> >
> > Nothing that would uniformly work for 32-bit and 64-bit kernels and
> also
> > Linux only has flags that allocate below certain addresses; nothing
> that
> > tells the allocator "give me something between 0x20000000 and
> 0x3fffffff".
> >
> > Ralf
> [Anoop P.A.] You mean there are some flags available to force kmalloc to
> allocate memory below some address? I couldn't find one in kmalloc man
> pages.
>
Ralf said "nothing". My reading is that such a flag is _not_ available.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 5:51 TITAN GE driver Anoop P.A.
2010-05-28 16:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-06-02 8:10 ` Anoop P.A.
2010-06-02 8:10 ` Anoop P.A.
2010-06-02 8:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-06-02 8:58 ` Anoop P.A.
2010-06-02 13:48 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2010-06-02 14:02 ` Anoop P.A.
2010-06-02 14:15 ` Ralf Baechle
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100602134810.GC4388@ericsson.com \
--to=guenter.roeck@ericsson.com \
--cc=Anoop_P.A@pmc-sierra.com \
--cc=linux-mips@linux-mips.org \
--cc=ralf@linux-mips.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.