> Linux> All programmers I am relatively new to linux kernel. Please
> Linux> advise what is the safe way to get the original virtaul address
> Linux> from dma address e.g.,
> You have to store the address you pass to pci_map_single() somewhere
> in your data structures together with the dma address.
Yes, but speaking as someone who had to use a large hammer to convert his
driver from bus_to_virt et al., it does seem rather hard not to have the
equivalent for the new pci_dma paradigm. It does present an obstacle
persuading people to convert drivers, particularly if the hardware is going to
present a linked list of addresses (as SCSI hardware often does).
After all, whatever device maps between the io bus and the memory bus, it must
always map a given dma_addr_t to a known physical address. It can't be that
hard to provide an an API in the kernel which can compute this relationship
(although I can see it may be expensive to walk iommu page tables). I'm only
really asking for a dma_addr_t to virtual address by the way. I see that
mapping the other way would be problematic.
James Bottomley
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