From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF97F6B01D4 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:51:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gyf1 with SMTP id 1so1719370gyf.14 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:51:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C2D0FF1.6010206@codeaurora.org> References: <1277877350-2147-1-git-send-email-zpfeffer@codeaurora.org> <1277877350-2147-3-git-send-email-zpfeffer@codeaurora.org> <20100701101746.3810cc3b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20100701180241.GA3594@basil.fritz.box> <1278012503.7738.17.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100701193850.GB3594@basil.fritz.box> <4C2D0FF1.6010206@codeaurora.org> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:51:01 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager From: Hari Kanigeri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Zach Pfeffer Cc: Andi Kleen , Daniel Walker , Randy Dunlap , 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 List-ID: > The VCMM takes the long view. Its designed for a future in which the > number of IOMMUs will go up and the ways in which these IOMMUs are > composed will vary from system to system, and may vary at > runtime. Already, there are ~20 different IOMMU map implementations in > the kernel. Had the Linux kernel had the VCMM, many of those > implementations could have leveraged the mapping and topology management > of a VCMM, while focusing on a few key hardware specific functions (map > this physical address, program the page table base register). > -- Sounds good. Did you think of a way to handle the cases where one of the Device that is using the mapped address crashed ? How is the physical address unbacked in this case ? Hari -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org