From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arch specific mmap attributes
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:00:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270630811.2300.93.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100407161203.FB81.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 16:14 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Desktop already uses similar features via PCI mmap
> > attributes and such, not to mention MSR settings on
> > x86.
>
> Probably I haven't catch your mention. Why userland process
> need to change PCI mmap attribute by mmap(2)? It seems kernel issue.
There are cases where the userspace based driver needs to control
attributes such as write combining, or even cachability when mapping PCI
devices directly into userspace.
It's not -that- common, though X still does it on a number of platforms,
and there are people still trying to run PCI drivers in userspace ;-)
But regardless. I don't see why HPC or Embedded would have to be
qualified as "crap" and not warrant our full attention into devising
something sane and clean anyways.
Cheers,
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-07 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 5:09 mprotect pgprot handling weirdness Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 6:07 ` Arch specific mmap attributes (Was: mprotect pgprot handling weirdness) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 6:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 7:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 10:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-07 6:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-07 7:03 ` Arch specific mmap attributes David Miller
2010-04-07 7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-07 7:18 ` David Miller
2010-04-07 9:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-04-07 8:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-07 8:56 ` Arch specific mmap attributes (Was: mprotect pgprot handling weirdness) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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