Re: How to map high memory for block io

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 08:47:03 EST


Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
> Doesn't seem like a generic solution is easily implemented. I'll start
> hacking together some way of specifying that highmem isn't supported so
> that mmc_block can indicate this to the block layer.
>

If I set the limit to BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH then (page_address(sg->page) +
sg->offset) is guaranteed to be directly accessible for the entire
sg->length on all architectures, right? This seems to be the assumption
in the USB ub driver at least.

Rgds
Pierre
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