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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: maheshk@cdac.in
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: [HOWTO] accessing the DMA mapped data
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 01:47:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510.014751.74749340.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4642D095.6070305@cdac.in>

From: Mahesh <maheshk@cdac.in>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:28:13 +0530

> I have a small question regarding the accessing the data in the DMA 
> mapped  region (in the driver).  In my driver I only have the 
> 'dma_addr_t addr' variable which is result after the 'dma_map_single'. 
> I don't have access to the virtual address of the data region.
> 
> Is there helper routine which we will give me the virtual address back 
> from the DMA mapped address???

You can eithe keep track of this yourself, or (depending upon
your usage) you might be able to use DMA pools, see
dma_pool_create() and friends.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  7:58 [HOWTO] accessing the DMA mapped data Mahesh
2007-05-10  8:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-05-10 11:19   ` Mahesh
2007-05-10 11:32     ` David Miller
2007-05-10 11:41       ` Mahesh
2007-05-10 11:47         ` David Miller
2007-05-11 15:42           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-05-10 18:27         ` Roland Dreier

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