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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel Stodden <stodden@in.tum.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	groudier@free.fr, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, zaitcev@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pci_pool reap?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:48:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212154816.E31425@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16a6sw-0005Jw-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020210211352.Q1910-100000@gerard> <20020211.184412.35663889.davem@redhat.com> <1013528224.2240.245.camel@bitch>
In-Reply-To: <1013528224.2240.245.camel@bitch>; from stodden@in.tum.de on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:36:34PM +0100

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:36:34PM +0100, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> ARM does GFP_KERNEL, and then __ioremaps the underlying pages.
> ugh. is that the only way to get the area coherent?

Yes.  Cache bits are in the page tables, and it would be idiotic to
manipulate the cache bits on a 1MB granularity over the kernel
direct mapped space.

> furthermore i don't see why this could not be interrupt safe.

GFP_KERNEL in the page table allocation functions mainly.  We've been
around and around this recently on this mailing list, so I'm not going
to say anything further.  I don't want another long discussion about
this subject taking my time away from doing real work on ARM.  If you're
really interested in the outcome, please examine the lkml archives.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-12 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1013388420.27877.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-02-11  2:49 ` pci_pool reap? Pete Zaitcev
2002-02-11  3:12   ` Alan Cox
2002-02-10 20:20     ` Gérard Roudier
2002-02-12  2:44       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-11 20:34         ` Gérard Roudier
2002-02-12 15:36         ` Daniel Stodden
2002-02-11 21:10           ` Gérard Roudier
2002-02-12 21:14             ` Daniel Stodden
2002-02-12 15:48           ` Russell King [this message]
2002-02-12 15:50             ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12 15:59               ` Russell King
2002-02-12 17:27             ` Daniel Stodden
2002-02-12 15:49           ` David S. Miller
2002-02-11  0:44 Daniel Stodden

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