Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy.

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy.
Date	2016-01-08 10:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:49:49PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is a completely broken usage of the mmap interface.  if you use
> > mmap on a device file you must use the actual mmap for the data
> > transfer.
> 
> Really? V4L does exactly the same thing, from what I can see. It's just a way
> of allocating memory with specific properties, roughly similar to hugetlbfs.

V4l is generally speaking never an example for good practices.

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  Re: Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field? "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-01-05 22:00 +0100
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      Re: Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field? "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 01:00 +0100
      [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 01:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-06 01:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 01:30 +0100
          [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 01:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Lingzhu Xiang <lingzhu.xiang@mail.utoronto.ca> - 2016-01-07 03:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-07 16:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-01-11 12:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-01-12 11:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Lingzhu Xiang <lingzhu.xiang@mail.utoronto.ca> - 2016-01-09 05:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-09 12:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-06 07:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 15:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> - 2016-01-06 16:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com> - 2016-01-06 16:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-06 16:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-06 16:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-08 10:50 +0100
                RE: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2016-01-08 11:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-01-08 17:10 +0100
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                Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-12 23:10 +0100
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            Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-08 10:50 +0100

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