Re: [Q] block / zynq: DMA bouncing

[Michal Simek]

On 01/27/2014 06:52 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:45:50PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Why 0x4000? IRC Linux for ARM is using space for any purpose.
>> Russell knows this much better than I.
> 
> Probably because as the kernel is loaded at 0x8000, it will place the
> swapper page table at 0x4000, thus covering from 0x4000 upwards.

Ah yeah swapper.

> 
> Thus, the majority of your un-DMA-able memory will be kernel text or
> swapper page tables.

Yes, exactly.
0x0 - 0x4000 - reserving not to be used by DMA
0x4000 - 0x8000 swapper page table
0x8000 - 0x80000 kernel text + up

Thanks,
Michal

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