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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, riel@redhat.com,
	kurt@garloff.de, Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk,
	Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - AGP bus/phys cleanups
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:31:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050316143130.GA21959@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DBX0o-0000sV-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:48:29AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> This patch cleans up AGP driver treatment of bus/device memory. Every
> use of virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt should properly be converting between
> virtual and bus addresses: this distinction really matters for the Xen
> hypervisor.

It's bogus either way.  You must never use virt_to_phys or virt_to_bus
for bus address.  For systems with an IOMMU there's no 1:1 mapping.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-16 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-16 11:48 [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - AGP bus/phys cleanups Keir Fraser
2005-03-16 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-03-16 14:58   ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-16 15:01   ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-16 18:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-16 18:35       ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-16 18:42         ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-16 19:08           ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-16 19:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-16 19:11           ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-16 17:40   ` Alan Cox
2005-03-16 17:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-16 21:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-16 22:06   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-16 23:55     ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-17  0:39       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-17  1:05         ` Tupshin Harper
2005-03-17  3:44         ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-17  4:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-17  4:58         ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-17  9:16     ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-17  9:34       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-17 10:56         ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-19 10:07           ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-03-19 10:56             ` Christian Limpach
2005-03-19 13:01               ` Keir Fraser
2005-03-17 13:53         ` Alan Cox
2005-03-18  0:16           ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-18  4:23             ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-18  9:05             ` Keir Fraser

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