Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263577AbUCUAWL (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:22:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263578AbUCUAWK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:22:10 -0500 Received: from dragnfire.mtl.istop.com ([66.11.160.179]:9159 "EHLO dsl.commfireservices.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263577AbUCUAWJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:22:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:22:13 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Russell King Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Jaroslav Kysela , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage? In-Reply-To: <20040320235445.B24744@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20040320133025.GH9009@dualathlon.random> <20040320144022.GC2045@holomorphy.com> <20040320150621.GO9009@dualathlon.random> <20040320154419.A6726@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040320160911.B6726@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040320222341.J6726@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040320224518.GQ2045@holomorphy.com> <20040320235445.B24744@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 26 On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Russell King wrote: > The issues are: > > 1. ALSA wants to mmap the buffer used to transfer data to/from the > card into user space. This buffer may be direct-mapped RAM, > memory allocated via dma_alloc_coherent(), an on-device buffer, > or anything else. > > The user space mapping must likewise be DMA-coherent. > > Currently, ALSA just does virt_to_page() on whatever address it > feels like in its nopage() function, which is obviously not > acceptable for two out of the three specific cases above. > > 2. ALSA wants to _coherently_ share data between the kernel-side > drivers, and user space ALSA library, mainly the DMA buffer > head/tail pointers so both kernel space and user space knows > when the buffer is full/empty. Doesn't DRI also suffer from the same issues? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/