Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB?

[David S. Miller]

   From: Gerd Knorr <[e-mail]>
   Date: 5 Mar 2002 17:00:55 GMT
   
   >  computer with >4GB of RAM (CONFIG_HIGHEM) talking to a PCI card
   >  that only does 32-bit addressing:
   >  
   >  		pci_set_dma_mask(pcidev, 0xffffffff);
   >  		addr = vmalloc(nbytes);
   >  		/* On an x86 with >4GB of RAM, addr will be <4GB, but
   >  	           __pa(addr) might be >4GB, and the system lacks
   >  	           PCI address mapping harware. */
   
   use vmalloc_32(), this one returns lowmem.

You can't use vmalloc() pointers as arguments to pci_map_single.
That is the point of what he's mentioning.
   
   >  		dma_addr = pci_map_single(pcidev, addr, nbytes, direction);
   
   This is illegal because addr is a kernel _virtual_ address.  You have to
   get the page using vmalloc_to_page() and feed this to pci_map_page()
   then. 

There is no such requirement that pci_map_page() only be used.
If you know you haven't got a HIGHMEM page, it is legal to
pass this to pci_map_single().