From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Robert.Picco@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPET driver
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:49:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A40982.60202@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040513164226.7efb2a83.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>>+ vma->vm_flags |= (VM_IO | VM_SHM | VM_LOCKED);
>>>+ vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
>>>+ addr = __pa(addr);
>>
>>where did these flags come from? don't you just want VM_RESERVED?
>
>
> VM_IO is the way to mark mmapped I/O devices.
>
> vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO;
>
> should be sufficient here.
>
> hm, I'm trying to decrypt how the driver accesses the hardware. It's
> taking copies of kernel virtual addresses based off hpet_virt_address, but
> there are no readl's or writel's in there. Is the actual device access
> done over in time_hpet.c?
HPET writes into RAM at magic addresses, so it's not really a bus address.
Thus I think only VM_RESERVED is needed...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 22:34 [PATCH] HPET driver Robert Picco
2004-05-13 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:53 ` HPET docs Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-05-14 11:19 ` [PATCH] HPET driver Vojtech Pavlik
2004-05-14 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:33 ` Robert Picco
2004-05-17 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:25 ` Russell King
2004-05-17 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-18 1:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <m1vfit3939.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
[not found] ` <52fz9xpp5l.fsf@topspin.com>
2004-05-18 23:01 ` readq/writeq on 32bit machines Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-19 0:58 ` Roland Dreier
2004-05-19 3:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <16553.28862.590897.171478@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2004-05-20 2:01 ` [PATCH] HPET driver Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <200406181616.i5IGGECd003812@hera.kernel.org>
2004-06-18 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 21:34 ` Robert Picco
2004-06-23 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
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