Re: mmap dma buffer

From	Pavel Borzenkov <pavel@devio.us>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: mmap dma buffer
Date	2011-07-07 10:02 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<slrnj1b122.6ff.pavel@wolfman.devio.us> (permalink)
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On 2011-07-07, Pavel Borzenkov <pavel@devio.us> wrote:
>
> You can't convert address returned by pci_alloc_consistent() using
> virt_to_phys() macro. This macro correctly works only for the kernel virtual
> addresses. And this is not needed, actually, because pci_alloc_consistent()
> function returns physical address of the allocated memory in its third
> argument.
>

Sorry. virt_to_phys() works correctly only for kernel *logical* addresses, not
virtual.

-- 
Pavel

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      Re: mmap dma buffer new <luvraghu@gmail.com> - 2011-07-07 05:42 -0700
        Re: mmap dma buffer Pavel Borzenkov <pavel@devio.us> - 2011-07-07 13:27 +0000
          Re: mmap dma buffer new <luvraghu@gmail.com> - 2011-07-07 07:46 -0700
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