From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
To: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, riel@redhat.com,
linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mgorman@suse.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] allow mapping page-less memremaped areas into KVA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:37:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CCD5EC.8000509@sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55CCAE57.20009@plexistor.com>
On 08/13/2015 07:48 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> There is already an object that holds a relationship of physical
> to Kernel-virtual. It is called a memory-section. Why not just
> widen its definition?
Memory sections are purely there to map physical address ranges back to
metadata about them. *Originally* for 'struct page', but widened a bit
subsequently. But, it's *never* been connected to kernel-virtual
addresses in any way that I can think of.
So, that's a curious statement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-13 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-13 3:00 [PATCH v5 0/5] introduce __pfn_t for unmapped pfn I/O and DAX lifetime Dan Williams
2015-08-13 3:01 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h Dan Williams
2015-08-13 3:01 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] allow mapping page-less memremaped areas into KVA Dan Williams
2015-08-13 5:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 12:57 ` Dan Williams
2015-08-13 13:23 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-13 15:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-13 14:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 15:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 17:37 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-08-13 17:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-08-13 18:15 ` Dan Williams
2015-08-13 3:01 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access() Dan Williams
2015-08-13 3:01 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] dax: fix mapping lifetime handling, convert to __pfn_t + kmap_atomic_pfn_t() Dan Williams
2015-08-13 6:26 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 15:21 ` Dan Williams
2015-08-13 16:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-08-13 18:51 ` Dan Williams
2015-08-13 3:01 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] scatterlist: convert to __pfn_t Dan Williams
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