Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752016AbWCBRFG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:05:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752015AbWCBRFF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:05:05 -0500 Received: from mail0.lsil.com ([147.145.40.20]:24059 "EHLO mail0.lsil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751390AbWCBRFE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:05:04 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Question: how to map SCSI data DMA address to virtual address? Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:04:57 -0700 Message-ID: <9738BCBE884FDB42801FAD8A7769C2651420C2@NAMAIL1.ad.lsil.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Question: how to map SCSI data DMA address to virtual address? Thread-index: AcY+GoF8v0SEDptDR3Oj2x6OM6fFtwAACPEg From: "Ju, Seokmann" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Cc: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2006 17:04:57.0082 (UTC) FILETIME=[6ED045A0:01C63E1B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1842 Lines: 55 Hi, On Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:58 AM Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Why do you need to do this? It's generally bad for drivers to snoop > data! I understood that is bad. I am trying to make sure the data written to disk drive are identical with the data from upper layer by comparing actual data in the driver. This is a part of debugging only not for release driver, obviously. So, is it completely unable to get this done? Any tricky solution? Thank you, > -----Original Message----- > From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjan@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:58 AM > To: Ju, Seokmann > Cc: Ju, Seokmann; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Question: how to map SCSI data DMA address to > virtual address? > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:53 -0700, Ju, Seokmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the 'scsi_cmnd' structure, there are two entries holding address > > information for data to be transferred. One is > 'request_buffer' and the > > other one is 'buffer'. > > In case of 'use_sg' is non-zero, those entries indicates > the address of > > the scatter-gather table. > > use_sg is never non-zero so that's easy > > > > > Is there way to get virtual address (so that the data could > be accessed > > by the driver) of the actual data in the case of 'use_sg' > is non-zero? > > not really; unless you mapped it. The physical address may > already been > translated by the iommu... at which point there is no direct > mapping to > kernel memory. > > Why do you need to do this? It's generally bad for drivers to snoop > data! > > - 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/