Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:04, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:34:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Populating PTEs on demand through nopage() can be an implementation
> > detail. You don't have to make 'struct page' available in the generic
> > API to achieve that optimisation.
> 
> Indeed - and this is what my implementation of dma_coherent_mmap() does
> on ARM.
> 
> Once everyone has decided on a solution, we can then move it forward.
> Currently it does look like dma_coherent_mmap() is the one of choice,
> so... Are there any remaining objections to it?

Looks fine to me. We may want to refine dma_coherent_alloc() in the
first place though, like introducing a "real" __dma_coherent_alloc()
that takes additional flags and have dma_coherent_alloc() just be
a macro, that way James can pass in flags telling at alloc time that
a given alloc will potentially be mapped to userland (if I understand
James requirements properly).

Ben.