Re: PowerPC equivalent to dma_mmap_writecombine()?

On Friday 06 July 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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quoted

Not sure exactly what arm does here, but it sounds like you want
to call remap_pfn_range with the _PAGE_NO_CACHE bit set in the
protection flags, and _PAGE_GUARDED not set.

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I always have a hard time with these mapping functions. =A0Is this right?
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vma->vm_page_prot =3D __pgprot((pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) | _PAGE_NO_=

CACHE) &=20

~_PAGE_GUARDED));
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ret =3D remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, runtime->dma_addr, runtime->d=

ma_bytes,=20

vma->vm_page_prot);
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Alternatively, could I use function snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem() (sound/core/=

pcm_native.c)?=20

It looks like it does the right thing, although it doesn't unset the guar=

ded bit. =A0If=20

that's wrong, I can submit a patch to unset that bit on PowerPC, but like=

 I said, I can=20

never quite get my head around this mapping stuff.

The guarded bit is disabled by default, so you don't need t remove it, so
the function you quoted should be alright for this purpose. Not sure if you
need the ioremap in there though.

	Arnd <><