2009-06-16 21:48:17

by Kumar Gala

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Subject: Ability to force the physical location of a kmalloc for testing purposes

We are trying to test some IO DMA code and want to make sure the
physical address is in a given range for testing. For example on
PPC32 w/have 36-bit physical and some of IO devices are capable of
DMAing to the full 36-bit address. However we want to test things
like making sure a physical address >4G works properly.

- k