From: Gareth Hughes <gareth@valinux.com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
Cc: michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: PPC Lockup (ati-pcigart-branch)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:45:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A68DFC7.20F2A56D@valinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A687848.B7BE3116@mvista.com
Dan Malek wrote:
>
> Hmmm....vmalloc() definitely works fine, we use it all of the
> time in the kernel. The only way it would hang is if you call
> it too soon, or if the number of pages was too large.
Yes.
> > .....and we really should be using
> > vmalloc_32(...) instead (which will result in exactly the same code, but
> > it is cleaner).
>
> It's no longer the same. Linux has the "highmem" configuration now,
> and vmalloc() allows that to be used, while vmalloc32() does not.
If you look, we've just included the vmalloc_32() code inline, using
__vmalloc(). We're not using the regular highmem vmalloc().
-- Gareth
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-20 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-19 3:26 PPC Lockup (ati-pcigart-branch) Michel Dänzer
2001-01-19 3:55 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-19 6:53 ` [Dri-devel] " Gareth Hughes
2001-01-19 16:48 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-19 17:24 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-20 0:45 ` Gareth Hughes [this message]
2001-01-19 16:40 ` [Dri-devel] " Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-19 17:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-01-19 22:26 ` Chris Emerson
2001-01-19 22:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-01-19 23:43 ` Chris Emerson
2001-01-20 1:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-01-20 13:21 ` Michael Schmitz
2001-01-20 16:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-01-20 17:03 ` Michael Schmitz
2001-01-20 2:46 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-20 4:17 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 9:44 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 17:59 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 18:18 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 18:54 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 19:39 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-22 20:08 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 20:30 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-22 21:23 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 23:12 ` Frank Rowand
2001-01-22 21:31 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-22 21:48 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-22 22:15 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-23 16:14 ` Mike Beede
2001-01-22 22:31 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-23 0:24 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-23 2:28 ` Takashi Oe
2001-01-23 2:40 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-23 4:40 ` Ralph Metzler
2001-01-23 5:48 ` Takashi Oe
2001-01-23 11:24 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-23 0:34 ` Frank Rowand
2001-01-23 0:43 ` Frank Rowand
2001-01-23 11:32 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 20:43 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 21:07 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-22 17:33 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-22 17:38 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-22 17:38 ` Gareth Hughes
2001-01-22 17:43 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 18:36 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-22 18:44 ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-01-22 18:47 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-01-22 21:13 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-22 21:58 ` Roman Zippel
2001-01-22 23:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-01-23 0:13 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-20 13:15 ` Michael Schmitz
2001-01-19 17:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
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