On Monday 12 November 2007 16:26:37 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: > > Of all the DMA calls, only dma_alloc_coherent might not actually > > call dma_ops->alloc_coherent. We make sure that gets called if the > > device that's being worked on is a PV device > > I always thougt that's a mess... the reason it's done this way is that > Andi Kleen preferred it for some reason at the time. How about trying > to fix it cleanly so that dma_alloc_coherent always gets called rather > than adding a hack to work around a hack? It will require auditing all > of the different x86 dma-ops but I can help with that.
Hmm, nice to know it's like that just because of "not necessary now". Fixing this along with stacking dma_ops and making 32-bit also dma_ops-ready will greatly simplify things. > > Cheers, > Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
