From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
andi@firstfloor.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"tony.luck@intel.com" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
pbadari@us.ibm.com,
"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:43:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003164313.GH12049@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191429433.4939.49.camel@localhost>
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I think we should take system ram out of the iomem file, at least.
Rubbish. iomem is a representation of the physical addresses in the
system as seen from the CPU's perspective. As I said in my previous
mail in this thread, if you attempt to map a device's BAR over the top
of physical RAM, things will go poorly for you.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 1:31 [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-03 1:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-03 4:57 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-11-01 9:21 ` [PATCH] Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM (Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c) Yasunori Goto
2007-11-01 16:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-06 2:23 ` [PATCH] Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM take 2 Yasunori Goto
2007-10-03 16:37 ` [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c Dave Hansen
2007-10-03 16:43 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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