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From: Andre Schwarz <andre.schwarz@matrix-vision.de>
To: "Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: LinuxPPC List <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: PCI DMA to user mem on mpc83xx
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:12:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDA2509.6070702@matrix-vision.de> (raw)

Ira,

we have a pretty old PCI device driver here that needs some basic rework 
running on 2.6.27 on several MPC83xx.
It's a simple char-device with "give me some data" implemented using 
read() resulting in zero-copy DMA to user mem.

There's get_user_pages() working under the hood along with 
SetPageDirty() and page_cache_release().

Main goal is to prepare a sg-list that gets fed into a DMA controller.

I wonder if there's a more up-to-date/efficient and future proof scheme 
of creating the mapping.


Could you provide some pointers or would you stick to the current scheme ?


Regards,
André

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23  9:12 Andre Schwarz [this message]
2011-05-23 17:27 ` PCI DMA to user mem on mpc83xx Ira W. Snyder
2011-05-24  9:47   ` Andre Schwarz
2011-05-24  8:15 ` David Laight
2011-05-24 10:02   ` Andre Schwarz

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