linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] swiotlb-xen: use xen_alloc/free_coherent

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Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:50:45 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] swiotlb-xen: use
 xen_alloc/free_coherent_pages

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.
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