From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx166.postini.com [74.125.245.166]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 121276B0083 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 08:29:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 21:28:54 +0900 From: Paul Mundt Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] mm: vmalloc: add VM_DMA flag to indicate areas used by dma-mapping framework Message-ID: <20120524122854.GD11860@linux-sh.org> References: <1337252085-22039-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1337252085-22039-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <4FBB3B41.8010102@kernel.org> <01e501cd39a8$67f34ea0$37d9ebe0$%szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01e501cd39a8$67f34ea0$37d9ebe0$%szyprowski@samsung.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: 'Minchan Kim' , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 'Kyungmin Park' , 'Arnd Bergmann' , 'Russell King - ARM Linux' , 'Chunsang Jeong' , 'Krishna Reddy' , 'Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk' , 'Hiroshi Doyu' , 'Subash Patel' , 'Nick Piggin' On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:08 AM Minchan Kim wrote: > > Hmm, VM_DMA would become generic flag? > > AFAIU, maybe VM_DMA would be used only on ARM arch. > > Right now yes, it will be used only on ARM architecture, but maybe other architecture will > start using it once it is available. > There's very little about the code in question that is ARM-specific to begin with. I plan to adopt similar changes on SH once the work has settled one way or the other, so we'll probably use the VMA flag there, too. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org