From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: zpfeffer@codeaurora.org, joro@8bytes.org, dwalker@codeaurora.org,
andi@firstfloor.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, mel@csn.ul.ie,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:20:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100713092012.7c1fe53e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100713145852C.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> Why video4linux can't use the DMA API? Doing DMA with vmalloc'ed
> buffers is a thing that we should avoid (there are some exceptions
> like xfs though).
Vmalloc is about the only API for creating virtually linear memory areas.
The video stuff really needs that to avoid lots of horrible special cases
when doing buffer processing and the like.
Pretty much each driver using it has a pair of functions 'rvmalloc' and
'rvfree' so given a proper "vmalloc_for_dma()" type interface can easily
be switched
Alan
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 5:55 [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30 5:55 ` [RFC 2/3] mm: iommu: A physical allocator for the VCMM Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30 5:55 ` [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 17:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01 18:02 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:28 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:42 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:15 ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-07-02 7:09 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:36 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:21 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-14 19:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 1:18 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:00 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:05 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 7:33 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:56 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:46 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13 5:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 8:20 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-07-13 8:30 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 8:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-07-13 8:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 9:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-14 1:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 3:50 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22 4:47 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 16:33 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22 7:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-22 16:13 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13 12:06 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:51 ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-07-02 7:29 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 23:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02 6:17 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02 8:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02 18:42 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 15:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:52 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-03 6:36 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:27 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 20:59 ` Paul Walmsley
2010-07-01 21:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-30 23:40 ` [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01 7:16 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02 7:00 ` Paul Mundt
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