From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:45:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20081121174551.GC4336@elte.hu> References: <1227284770-19215-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <1227286492.4901.208.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20081121165722.GD1386@amd.com> <1227287215.4901.213.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20081121171802.GK733@elte.hu> <20081121172046.GF1386@amd.com> <1227288269.4901.222.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20081121172722.GG1386@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , netdev@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joerg Roedel Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:56807 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755661AbYKURqY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:46:24 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081121172722.GG1386@amd.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 05:24:29PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:20 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > Ok, I will move the generic bits to lib/ and include/linux and let > > > architectures decide if they want to use it. > > > > Once you've done that, I'll try to hook it up on PowerPC to make > > sure it works there. > > Ok, cool. Thanks i'll give it a whirl on x86 once the allocation bug is resolved. x86 testing will be the most interesting in practice, because most drivers there are developed with no dynamic DMA in mind. (many of the x86 drivers were developed before IOMMUs were supported in Linux) Ingo