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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
	wgowcher@yahoo.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: pci_alloc_consistent usage
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:33:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030527123329.A7750@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030527112237.GA24905@linux-mips.org>; from ralf@linux-mips.org on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:22:37PM +0200

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:22:37PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> [...]
> portably refer to any piece of memory.  If you have a cpu pointer
> (which may be validly DMA'd too) you may easily obtain the page
> and offset using something like this:
>                                                                                 
>         struct page *page = virt_to_page(ptr);
>         unsigned long offset = ((unsigned long)ptr & ~PAGE_MASK);
> [...]
> 
> While it's officially documented I still don't like it.

Hmm, I remembered that some ports used vmalloc-like allocators for
this and virt_to_page doesn't work for those..

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-27 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23 21:59 pci_alloc_consistent usage Wayne Gowcher
2003-05-27  9:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-27 10:07   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2003-05-27 10:53     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-27 11:22       ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-27 11:33         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-05-27 11:45           ` Ralf Baechle
2003-05-28  1:30         ` Atsushi Nemoto
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-13 13:01 pci_alloc_consistent() usage Vadivelan Mani
2004-07-13 19:29 ` Ralf Baechle

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