linux-kernel - Re: DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space

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Message-ID: <20100309101611.GC5691@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:16:11 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mkl0301@...il.com, thomas@...ller.dyndns.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA using data buffer vmapped in kernel space

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:29:35AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:14:03 +0000
> 
> > What you could do is prepare a patch to allow the firmware support to
> > export a scatterlist via the struct firmware, and then use that with
> > dma_map_sg().  Let's hope that the SPI interfaces support scatterlists.
> 
> It's so common to want a scatterlist from a vmalloc/vmap area
> that a generic common helper is probably the best.
> 
> Just iterate over the vmalloc/vmap area using vmalloc_to_page()
> to fill in the SG entries.

It looks like the firmware interface may return a pointer to either the
kernel binary itself for built-in firmware, or to a set of pages which
have been vmap'd.  In the former case, vmalloc_to_page() will fail.
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