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From: Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
To: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:31:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4549D722.5090007@ti.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061102083109.GB1377@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>



Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:58:17PM +0100, Guillermo Marcus Martinez wrote:
>> My suggestion would be to add two functions: pci_map_consistent() and
>> dma_map_coherent() to address this issue, and their corresponding
>> unmap's. That will make sure all that is needed is done, is a clean and
>> consistent with the pci_ and dma_ APIs, and fills a mmap requirement not
>> covered by the other functions.
> 
> You might want to look through include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h to see if
> an architecture already has considered that and the interface they
> implemented.
> 

Nice! Thanks. I think the issue of mapping a coherent area to user space
is fairly general. Should not this be promoted to be part of the general
dma-api? (that is, not a platform specific function)

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02 11:32 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
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 [this message]

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