Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 4 authors, 2001-11-23

Re: New API for non cache coherent ppc cpu's

From: Roman Zippel <hidden>
Date: 2001-11-21 20:20:24

Hi,

Armin Kuster wrote:
mapping = pci_map_page(pdev,
                               virt_to_page(cmd->request_buffer),
This is the problem, virt_to_page doesn't work kmap'ed highmem pages.
quoted
- I think it was never defined, what should be done if offset/size isn't
cache line aligned. That's especially a problem in the invalidate only
case. I'd prefer to make this illegal, as it's mostly not a problem for
drivers.
wouldn't it also be a problem for consistent_sync?  we don't check for
offset/size are cache line aligned.
Yes, same problem.

bye, Roman

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