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Date:   Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:18:43 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG 5.14] arm64/mm: dma memory mapping fails (in some cases)
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 12:22:47AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> I did some digging and it seems that the most "generic" way to check if a
> page is in RAM is page_is_ram(). It's not 100% bullet proof as it'll give
> false negatives for architectures that do not register "System RAM", but
> those are not using dma_map_resource() anyway and, apparently, never would.

The downside of page_is_ram is that it looks really expensiv for
something done at dma mapping time.