From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:16:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100309101611.GC5691@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100309.012935.98310472.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:29:35AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:14:03 +0000
>
> > What you could do is prepare a patch to allow the firmware support to
> > export a scatterlist via the struct firmware, and then use that with
> > dma_map_sg(). Let's hope that the SPI interfaces support scatterlists.
>
> It's so common to want a scatterlist from a vmalloc/vmap area
> that a generic common helper is probably the best.
>
> Just iterate over the vmalloc/vmap area using vmalloc_to_page()
> to fill in the SG entries.
It looks like the firmware interface may return a pointer to either the
kernel binary itself for built-in firmware, or to a set of pages which
have been vmap'd. In the former case, vmalloc_to_page() will fail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 21:11 DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space Thomas Koeller
2010-03-04 21:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-06 13:07 ` Thomas Koeller
2010-03-06 19:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 7:45 ` Lin Mac
2010-03-09 9:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-09 9:29 ` David Miller
2010-03-09 10:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-03-09 10:20 ` David Miller
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