linux-kernel - Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701080052400.1019@skynet.skynet.ie>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:54:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops


> Even better we can actualy avid most of the page table walks completely.
> First there is a number of places that can never have the vmalloc case
> an may use ioremap/iounmap directly.  Secondly drm_core_ioremap/
> drm_core_ioremapfree already have the right drm_map to check wich kind
> of mapping we have - we just need to use it instead of discarding that
> information!  The only leaves direct drm_ioremapfree in i810_dma.c and
> i830_dma.c which I don't quite manage to follow.  Maybe Dave has an
> idea how to get rid of those aswell.
>

I've applied two patches to the DRM git
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary

They need a fair bit of testing, I've tested them no i810, but I need to 
test them on a few other boards before I'd consider putting them in -mm..

Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG

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