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Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions

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On Monday 09 November 2015 23:49:54 Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 11/9/2015 8:48 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >>>
> >>> And why kmalloc anyway?  Why not leave it on the stack?
> >>>
> >>>      char src[] = "hello world";
> >>>
> >>> ?
> >>
> >> I need to call dma_map_single on this address to convert it to a DMA
> >> address. That's why.
> >
> > And you can't do that with an object that's on the stack?
> >
> 
> no, pasting from here.
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> 
> under 'What memory is DMA'able?'
> 
> This rule also means that you may use neither kernel image addresses
> (items in data/text/bss segments), nor module image addresses, nor
> stack addresses for DMA.

Correct. I think this is just because of cache line alignment that
is guaranteed for kmalloc but not for anything on the stack.

	Arnd
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[PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-08 06:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-08 06:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-09 03:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-09 14:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-10 06:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-10 11:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-09 04:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 10:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-10 06:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-11-10 06:00 +0100

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