From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:36:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4547A5D2.2080900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031192252.GA26625@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:59PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Piece of code please. pci_alloc_consistent calls __get_free_pages, and there
>> should be no problem with mmaping this area.
>
> That is an implementation detail which is not portable to other
> architectures. Please don't encourage people to use non-portable
> implementation details.
Sorry, I stand corrected, thanks,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 9:19 mmaping a kernel buffer to user space Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:25 ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 17:08 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-31 19:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-31 19:22 ` Russell King
2006-10-31 19:36 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2006-10-31 16:10 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-10-31 16:33 ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-11-01 11:11 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-11-01 12:58 ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-01 14:00 ` yogeshwar sonawane
2006-11-01 15:06 ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-02 8:31 ` Russell King
2006-11-02 11:31 ` Guillermo Marcus
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