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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 06:59:36 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org, cov@...eaurora.org, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:49:10AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: > Here is a good description of logical address vs. virtual address. > > https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Kernel-logical-and-virtual-addresses-What-is-the-difference-between-them-What-is-the-type-of-addresses-listed-in-the-System-map That's not how we use the terms in Linux. But it's not really the point of my question either. > > Is this correct? > > > No, the driver is plain broken without this patch. It causes a kernel panic > during driver probe. > > This is the definition of vmap API. > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/API-vmap.html Thanks for the pointer, but I'm actually the person who introduced vmap to Linux a long time ago, and this is once again not my question. > You cannot take several virtually mapped addresses returned by dma_alloc_coherent > and try to make them virtually contiguous again. But now we're getting closer to the issue: the mlx4_en driver is using vmap on buffers allocated using dma_alloc_coherent if on a 64-bit architecture, and that's obviously broken. Now the big quetions is: why does it do that, given that dma_alloc_coherent can be used for high order allocations anyway (and in fact many architectures implement is using a version of vmap). Let's get some answers on these question from the Mellanox folks and work from there.
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