Re: pmd_alloc() usage incorrect?

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:23 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:

Hi,
I stumbled across what looks like incorrect code in
arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c:

static int __init dma_alloc_init(void)
{
...
        do {
                pgd = pgd_offset(&init_mm, CONSISTENT_BASE);
                pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, pgd, CONSISTENT_BASE);
                if (!pmd) {
...

Doesn't pmd_alloc() want a pud_t * for the second parameter?
ie also need to call pud_alloc() or the equivalent.

I've very little clue how this works...just looking at different
bits of code in my quest to understand it well enough to enable
USE_HPPA_IOREMAP in include/asm-parisc/io.h.

In theory you are right... However, ppc32 uses a 2 level page tables, so
this doesn't matter, pud is folded into pgd (and pmd too in fact, you
probably don't need it neither). It would still be nicer to do the full
conversion to pud types though.

Ben.