From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:06:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405E1FF0.60805@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079908923.17681.453.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 17:34 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Tell driver writers to call a standard platform function with a
>>{dma|mmio|pio|vmalloc} handle+size+len for {dma|mmio|pio|vmalloc} mmap
>>setup, and {fault|nopage} handler. ;-) IMO they shouldn't have to care
>>about the details.
>
>
> Don't let drivers see the {fault|nopage} handler. On most arches it can
> probably continue to be nopage(); other arches may use the
> newly-proposed fault() or perhaps just put all the PTEs in place up
> front. The driver shouldn't be given an opportunity to care.
If that's possible within the MM APIs... certainly. Have a standard
struct vm_operations_struct for dma, dma s/g, mmio, ... I presume?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 23:07 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 [this message]
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
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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