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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alpha iommu fixes
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:11:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010522151143.A9541@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010519231131.A2840@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20010520044013.A18119@athlon.random> <3B07AF49.5A85205F@uow.edu.au> <20010520154958.E18119@athlon.random> <20010520181803.I18119@athlon.random> <3B07EEFE.43DDBA5C@uow.edu.au> <20010520184411.K18119@athlon.random> <3B07F6B8.4EAB0142@uow.edu.au> <20010520191206.A30738@athlon.random> <15112.27206.4123.40450@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15112.27206.4123.40450@pizda.ninka.net>; from David S. Miller on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:07:17PM -0700

Hi!

>  > > [..]  Even sparc64's fancy
>  > > iommu-based pci_map_single() always succeeds.
>  > 
>  > Whatever sparc64 does to hide the driver bugs you can break it if you
>  > pci_map 4G+1 bytes of phyical memory.
> 
> Which is an utterly stupid thing to do.
> 
> Please construct a plausable situation where this would occur legally
> and not be a driver bug, given the maximum number of PCI busses and
> slots found on sparc64 and the maximum _concurrent_ usage of PCI dma
> space for any given driver (which isn't doing something stupid).

What stops you from plugging PCI-to-PCI bridges in order to create
some large number of slots, like 128?
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-22 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-18 17:46 alpha iommu fixes Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-19  2:34 ` Tom Vier
2001-05-19 10:48   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-19 20:58     ` Tom Vier
2001-05-19 13:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-19 19:11   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-20  2:40     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-20 12:12       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-20 13:40         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-20 14:23         ` Gérard Roudier
     [not found]       ` <3B07AF49.5A85205F@uow.edu.au>
2001-05-20 13:49         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-20 14:05           ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-20 14:33             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  1:01               ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  1:47                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  7:05                   ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  8:59                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  9:02                       ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  9:23                         ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21  9:30                           ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  9:42                             ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21 10:00                               ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 10:27                                 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21 10:34                                   ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 10:42                                     ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21 10:55                                       ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 11:08                                         ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21 11:36                                           ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 11:41                                             ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-21 22:22                                   ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-21 10:02                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 10:17                                 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21  9:56                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 10:11                           ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 10:19                             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 11:00                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 11:04                                 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 11:27                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 12:16                                     ` Peter Rival
2001-05-21 13:55                               ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-21 14:17                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-21 15:47                                   ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-22 11:12                               ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-22 17:51                                 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-21 10:50                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 10:59                               ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21 11:19                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21 11:51                                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-21 17:53                                     ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-22  0:56                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 14:29                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 14:44                                           ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-22 15:00                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 20:28                                               ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-22 20:40                                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-22 20:52                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 20:57                                                   ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-22 21:09                                                   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 20:48                                                 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-22 21:02                                                   ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-22 21:10                                                     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 21:17                                                     ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-22 21:24                                                       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 21:34                                                         ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-22 21:08                                                 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 15:18                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 15:55                                               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-22 16:06                                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-22 13:22                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  9:50                       ` Gerd Knorr
2001-05-21  1:00             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  7:47               ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21  7:53                 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  8:03                   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21  8:11                     ` David S. Miller
2001-05-20 16:18           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-20 16:21             ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-20 16:44               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-20 16:54                 ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-20 17:12                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  1:07                     ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  1:37                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  6:53                         ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  7:59                           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21  8:09                             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  8:09                               ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21  8:06                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-23  0:05                           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-22 13:11                       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-05-22 23:02                         ` David S. Miller
2001-05-20 17:16             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-20 17:37               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-21  1:03             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-21  1:58               ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-20  1:11 ` Richard Henderson
2001-05-20 12:05   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-05-21  0:37     ` Richard Henderson

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