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From: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pci-sysfs resource mmap broken (and PATCH)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20050430T001503-359@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050429084242.38db3aeb.davem@davemloft.net

David S. Miller <davem <at> davemloft.net> writes:
> The only problem could me getting the generic mmap() code to
> properly pass the flag down into the driver, I seem to recall
> that it either does an -EINVAL or masks out any flags which
> are not in the standard set.

But it would be a relatively clean solution, if a bit arch specific (i.e. some
arches would allow MAP_WRITECOMBINE or somesuch, while others have different
sorts of batching attributes).

> But then again this conflicts with what I remember seeing in the
> XFree86 PCI support, in that IA64 passed in such a mmap() flag
> to indicate a framebuffer like mapping that didn't need a guard-like
> bit to be set.

It used an ioctl last time I looked.

Jesse



  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-29 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26  5:33 pci-sysfs resource mmap broken Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26  6:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26  6:36   ` Greg KH
2005-04-26  9:24   ` Russell King
2005-04-26 16:30 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 22:47   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-27  3:55     ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-27  4:30       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-27  4:28         ` David S. Miller
2005-04-27  4:39           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-27  4:46     ` pci-sysfs resource mmap broken (and PATCH) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-27 23:13     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-28  5:33       ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-28  5:37         ` David S. Miller
2005-04-28  6:39           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-28  6:50             ` David S. Miller
2005-04-28  7:21               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-28  7:22                 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-28  7:46                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-28 15:11               ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-28 22:47                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-28 23:38                   ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-29 15:42                     ` David S. Miller
2005-04-29 22:16                       ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2005-04-28  6:35         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-03  5:37           ` pci-sysfs resource mmap broken PATCH#2 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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