Re: How to map high memory for block io

Russell King
2006-03-02T10:04:38Z

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:52:04AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > I think you're asking Jens that question - I know of no way to tell
> > the block layer that clustering is fine for normal but not highmem.
>
> That wasn't what I meant. What I was referring to was disabling highmem
> altogether, the way that is done now through looking at the dma mask.

You need to set your struct device's dma_mask appropriately:

u64 limit = BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH;

if (host->dev->dma_mask && *host->dev->dma_mask)
limit = *host->dev->dma_mask;

blk_queue_bounce_limit(mq->queue, limit);

Hence, if dma_mask is a NULL pointer or zero, highmem will be bounced.
Neither PNP nor your platform device sets dma_mask, so highmem will
always be bounced in the case of wbsd - which from what you write above
is what you require anyway.

Note: The host can't reach the queue itself because the queues are
created dynamically - it doesn't know when the queue is created or
destroyed or which request comes from which queue. I'd also guess that
randomly changing the bounce limit will probably end up with a random
selection of requests which have been bounced and those which haven't
hitting the driver.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core