From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
tomof@acm.org
Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:20:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4717B1FC.6040907@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710180952070.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Very few drivers should care so much about the *page* itself (or the
> offset). That's something that the generic allocation code etc cares
> about, but the driver is almost bound to care mostly about the actual DMA
> address, so adding that helper function that abstracts the sg access would
> be helpful in hiding some of the cruft?
FWIW libata cares about both. When doing DMA, it cares about the DMA
address. When doing PIO, it cares about the actual page, because it
does a kmap before sending the data through a 16-bit/32-bit data FIFO.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 151+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-17 15:46 [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 15:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 16:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 16:59 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:08 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:21 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:29 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 17:36 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:45 ` [bug] ata " Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 17:53 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:55 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 18:37 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 19:08 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 19:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:35 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 20:06 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 20:31 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 23:00 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-10-18 1:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 1:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 1:19 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 1:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 1:49 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 3:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 4:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 4:05 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 4:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 4:18 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 4:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 4:41 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 4:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 7:05 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:13 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 13:23 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:32 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 13:34 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:59 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 14:04 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 4:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 4:54 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 5:09 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 5:25 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 5:34 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 5:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 7:09 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 7:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 8:21 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 11:55 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 11:57 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:05 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 12:09 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:15 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:36 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 12:39 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:58 ` Benny Halevy
2007-10-18 13:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 14:05 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 14:16 ` Benny Halevy
2007-10-18 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 14:58 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-18 15:25 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:58 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:49 ` Benny Halevy
2007-10-18 13:55 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 13:51 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 13:58 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 14:03 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 14:10 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 14:13 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-18 14:14 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 17:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 17:10 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 17:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-18 17:14 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-19 8:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-10-18 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-17 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 19:49 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 20:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 7:10 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 8:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 8:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 8:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 8:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 9:01 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <bd58e4af0710180210tcc0d31ep9d05a0f2e9d6df29@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-18 9:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 9:17 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 9:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 9:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 10:10 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 10:16 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:17 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 10:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 10:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:42 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 11:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 11:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 14:52 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-20 11:55 ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-10-18 11:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 17:56 ` [bug] block " Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:02 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:20 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:03 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 20:15 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-10-17 17:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 17:31 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:00 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:22 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 10:52 ` Benny Halevy
2007-10-18 10:55 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-18 12:03 ` David Miller
2007-10-18 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:40 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-17 17:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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