From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Date: 5 Mar 2002 17:00:55 GMT
> computer with >4GB of RAM (CONFIG_HIGHEM) talking to a PCI card
> that only does 32-bit addressing:
>
> pci_set_dma_mask(pcidev, 0xffffffff);
> addr = vmalloc(nbytes);
> /* On an x86 with >4GB of RAM, addr will be <4GB, but
> __pa(addr) might be >4GB, and the system lacks
> PCI address mapping harware. */
use vmalloc_32(), this one returns lowmem.
You can't use vmalloc() pointers as arguments to pci_map_single.
That is the point of what he's mentioning.
> dma_addr = pci_map_single(pcidev, addr, nbytes, direction);
This is illegal because addr is a kernel _virtual_ address. You have to
get the page using vmalloc_to_page() and feed this to pci_map_page()
then.
There is no such requirement that pci_map_page() only be used.
If you know you haven't got a HIGHMEM page, it is legal to
pass this to pci_map_single().
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