Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation

Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp)
05 Dec 2002 11:49:52 +0900


David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> For cases like this, I'm talking about replacing the
> consistent_alloc() with a kmalloc(), then using the cache flush
> macros. Is there any machine for which this is not sufficient?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by `using the cache flush macros,'
but on one of my platforms, PCI consistent memory must be allocated from
a special area.

It's also not clear what you mean by `for cases like this' -- do you
mean, replace _all_ uses of xxx_alloc_consistent with kmalloc, or do you
mean just those cases where pci_alloc_consistent currently returns 0?

If the former, it obviously doesn't work on my platform; if the latter,
I guess this is what James' patch assumes the platform-specific
dma_alloc_consistent function will do.

-Miles

-- 
I'd rather be consing.
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