Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] swiotlb-xen: usexen_alloc/free_coherent_pages

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:50:45PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 07:32:33PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > Use xen_alloc_coherent_pages and xen_free_coherent_pages to allocate or
> > > > free coherent pages.
> > > > 
> > > > We need to be careful handling the pointer returned by
> > > > xen_alloc_coherent_pages, because on ARM the pointer is not equal to
> > > > phys_to_virt(*dma_handle). In fact virt_to_phys on the returned pointer
> > > > doesn't return a valid physical address.
> > > 
> > > Why is it called 'virt_to_phys'? What does it return then?
> > 
> > virt_to_phys only works for kernel direct mapped RAM memory.
> > In this case the virtual address could be an ioremap address, therefore
> > passing it to virt_to_phys would give you another physical address that
> > doesn't correspond to it.
> 
> Ah, so very much ARM (and in some way SPARC) specific. I think you need add some comments
> in the code (And git commit) to explain this. Thank you.

OK
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