Re: Does io_remap_page_range() take 5 or 6 args?

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 21:52:07 EST


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:38:48 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Oddly, the sparc64 case seems to be the most difficult one for the
>> io_remap_page_range() sweep...

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:43:13PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Oh yeah, that's due to the large TLB mapping support
> isn't it?

It could be ... most of the pain was centered around testing bits
inside of offset & ~PAGE_MASK, which, when the physical address offset
corresponds to is recovered from a pfn, are necessarily all zero.


-- wli
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